All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 17
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News
Neurones that fire in the night
Neurobiologists have used cataplexy to help track neurological networks.
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News
Yeast's foray into the unknown
Biosensors using brewer's yeast modified with jellyfish genes could find use on space flights.
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Feature
A future in fragments
Astex's research on drug fragments is taking it deep into the oncology field, as Emma Davies finds out.
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Feature
Getting the numbers right - the lonely struggle of Rydberg
Johannes Rydberg was one of the grandfathers of modern-day physics and chemistry, but persuading his peers to recognise his theories of atomic structure was not always easy. Mike Sutton delves deeper.
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News
Nanotubes going soft
Water-filled soft nanotubes have been developed for biological applications by a team of Swiss researchers.
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News
Herbicide tolerance heats up
Gene shuffling technique could deal a blow to agbio establishment.
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Start off low with hi-tech
Nanotechnology start-ups with big, bold dreams based on cutting-edge research must think a bit more about their customers and a bit less about their technology.
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News
Ilika sets sail from Southampton
Southampton University, UK, is spinning out a new combinatorial chemistry company called Ilika.
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Feature
Leading light
Helen Fielding talks to Cath O'Driscoll about what it takes, scientifically and financially, to be in control of simple chemical systems.
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Feature
Remedies from Nature
In the quest for better therapeutic drugs, scientists continue to look at natural products for inspiration. The imino sugars show particular promise, as Robert Nash explains.
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News
Pharma's spicy roll-call racks up
Chemists have discovered that coriander produces a powerful antibiotic.
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News
Power-free pumping
Japanese scientists have developed a new power-free pumping method for poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic chips.
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Opinion
Sinigrin in the rain
It is part of Hollywood folklore that somebody was once raving to Ginger Rogers about what an amazing dancer her screen partner Fred Astaire was.
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Feature
Rational or random?
There's more than one way to engineer an enzyme, explains Kira Weissman.
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Opinion
Letters: August 2004
From Norman Nicolson At last someone who is trying to strike a blow at the rubbish published in the newspapers in the name of science. I am a Guardian reader and have made similar comments in the Bad Science section of Guardian Unlimited. There is another writer of a similar ...
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News
Progressing the battle against cancer
There are two closely linked research areas in the fight against cancer: microtubules and epothilones.
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Review
Entering the the golden age of the quantum
The preface to The New Quantum Universe quotes a prediction made by Paul Davis