All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 227
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Can we control GM insects?
There is an urgent need to introduce regulations on the development of genetically modified insects.
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Keeping a lid on food contamination
A European team of scientists has established the source of semicarbazide contamination in jars of food.
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New tool for the combinatorial toolbox
Colour-changing resin makes it easy to see amines being removed from solution.
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US and Russia collaborate on new elements
A team of scientists from the US and Russia claims to have successfully created two new super heavy elements.
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Pharma companies turn to chemogenomics
The growing importance to pharmaceutical companies of understanding the potential side-effects of their drugs was recently demonstrated when Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Abbott Laboratories.
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Cellular origami for a cancer cure
The first successful synthesis of an antibiotic with antitumour properties has been achieved by UK researchers.
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Building up to a new HIV vaccine
An anti-HIV vaccine may be closer thanks to a new approach to vaccine design that is being developed.
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The future's bright, the future's blue
Gallium nitride is a new semiconductor that promises to outshine silicon, eclipse gallium arsenide and revolutionise our lives by reducing demand for electricity. John Emsley reports.
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AstraZeneca targets enzymes in cancer fight
A team of British and French researchers from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca claims to have discovered a new class of quinazoline-based compounds.
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Search for new antibiotics intensifies
Bacteria and enzymes are key contenders in battle against superbugs.
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Alzheimer's enzyme creates its own inhibitor
Using click chemistry in the fight against brain disease.
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Non-inflammatory hopes for Alzheimer's vaccine
A novel vaccine for treating Alzheimer's Disease (AD) could result from two research agreements recently signed by Neurochem.
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Oxygen and carbon detected in alien atmosphere
Astronomers identify key elements around extrasolar planet.
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EU Parliament delays agreement on Reach
Any prospects of an early agreement on Reach (Registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals), the proposed new EU regulatory regime for chemicals, have been dashed.
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Evaporating acids are the key to life
The evaporation of serine clusters might have been involved in the early processes of life on earth according to researchers from Purdue University, US.