All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 20
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Hosting a killer
In light of recent virus outbreaks, Ian Jones provides an overview of the agents we tolerate throughout life yet which cause constant concern.
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News
A malarial miracle?
A better understanding of the activity of malaria and an effective vaccine for the disease are both a step closer thanks to a team of chemists in Switzerland and the US.
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Mismanagement on Mars?
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee recently heard evidence from Colin Pillinger and other leaders.
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Robots with a sensitive touch
Organic transistors with pressure sensors prepare the way for artificial skin.
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Teaching the teachers
As the UK government steps up its effort to educate the next generation of scientists, Katharine Sanderson investigates a new national science learning centre and learns a few things about teaching along the way.
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News
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
Francis Crick, joint winner of the 1962 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for the groundbreaking discovery of the DNA double helix structure has died at the age of 88.
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The effects, if any, of antidepressants
The most popularly prescribed class may only be marginally effective
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Anyone who has a heart...
. is also the proud owner of a heartbeat working under the control of a number of membrane spanning proteins known as voltage dependent ion channels. Andy Extance gets to the heart of the matter.
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Arthritis pain relief proves ineffective
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory creams are only helpful in the short term.
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Bartering for biotech
The US Government has taken the unprecedented step of authorising a licensing agreement between biotech firms in the US and Cuba.
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From bathroom cabinet to battlefield
Polymers found in aloe vera extract could save the lives of trauma victims.
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Biological support for fuel cells
Could cyanobacterial proteins hold the key to the 'hydrogen economy'?
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From molecules to proteins, chemistry meets biology
The European Bioinformatics Institute has launched a freely available dictionary of 'small molecular entities'.