All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 166
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Business roundup: February 2006
Gazprom looks to UK Russian joint-stock company Gazprom’s chief executive Alexander Medvedev has announced ambitious plans to supply 20 per cent of the UK’s gas by 2015. One way to do this would be to buy an existing supplier, such as Scottish Power, he hinted in an interview with ...
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MEPs take a dip at Europe's water resorts
The European Parliament has updated its 30-year old Bathing Water Directive, to protect swimmers and water-sports enthusiasts
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Sparks fly over jet processing of cells
The latest publication on jet processing of living cells has revealed a highly competitive research field.
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UK considers nuclear option
The UK government yesterday launched a major consultation to determine energy generation for the next 50 years.
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NewsSniffing out garlic in gilded artworks
The presence of garlic in early gilded artworks has been confirmed
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Eurozone researchers see through fake banknotes
Fake euro notes can be detected quickly and accurately with a spectroscopic technique.
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Waste seaweed mops up heavy metals
Waste seaweed from the alginate industry could decontaminate water from disused mines.
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Toxic risk in bottled water?
Plastic bottles continuously leach antimony into drinking water, geochemists in Germany claim.
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Titanium dioxide crystals might have helped trigger life on earth
TiO2 crystals could have played a central role in establishing life on Earth, say NZ chemists.
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Rubella vaccines for the former USSR
The Wistar Institute, US, has licensed the seed stock for its rubella vaccine to Russian state-run company Microgen.
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Polyphosphate crucial for clots
The linear polymer polyphosphate plays an important, but previously unsuspected, role in blood coagulation.
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Synthetic muscle powers hopes for building nanorobot
A molecular muscle with the power to move nanorobots large and small has been developed by researchers in the UK.
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Advances in platinum chemotherapy
Side-effects of platinum containing antitumour drugs could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new series of platinum compounds developed by researchers in the Netherlands.
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Trees implicated in greenhouse gas conundrum
An unexpected discovery has shown that plants emit millions of tonnes of methane every year
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Biological junk finds use in cancer detection
Small peptides found in blood serum can act as effective biomarkers for cancer, US medical researchers have found.
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Small molecules control stem cells
Small molecules are the key to directly controlling stem cell development and could contribute to the advancement of tissue repair and regeneration say researchers in the US.
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Exposing arsenic in Europe
Arsenic exposure through drinking water in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia has been monitored by European researchers.