All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 39
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Chemistry on track for high profile in European research
Chemists across Europe are pushing for a higher profile for chemical science in the European Commission's seventh framework programme for research.
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Laser technology to unfold a protein mystery
Harry Gray, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded $970 000 (£518 000) to study the structures, dynamics, and misfolding of malignant proteins and peptides associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Historic chemists remembered
A blue plaque honouring two of Manchester's celebrated chemists, Edward Frankland and Henry Enfield Roscoe, has been unveiled in the city.
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Deadly protests in China
Not everyone in China welcomes the unprecedented growth in the country's chemical industry
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Queen's Awards highlight UK chemical industry
The chemical sector is a clear winner among this year's Queen's Awards for Enterprise, announced at the end of April.
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Viagra hope for hypertensive mothers-to-be
The anti-impotence drug viagra offers a potential treatment for pregnant women at risk of developing preeclampsia
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Australia needs more chemists
Australia faces a looming shortage of chemists that could endanger the emerging bio-technology and nanotechnology industries, fields that are expected to shape the nation's future economic growth.
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A different perspective on the world
A grand vision of global cooperation promises to boost the opportunities for chemical analysis from space. Andrew Scott looks at the findings from existing satellites
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Beyond cleaning
Researchers are taking surfactants and emulsions, the ingredients of liquid soaps and face creams, and using them to tackle some of the world's most challenging infectious diseases. Fiona Case finds out more
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Combinatorial chemistry with biological help
Michael Gross investigates the ways in which nature can be used to help in the quest for new molecules
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Taking on a challenge
Whatman claims to be in good health after restructuring and has been on the acquisition trail. Karen Harries-Rees reports
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Opinion
Editorial: European research funding
Research funding is essential for Europe to become a key knowledge-based economy
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Bucket science
Lord Kelvin's bucket technique was easily arranged - cloudy skies are the East Midland's forte after all, and I had a bin liner handy - but to no avail.
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Swings and roundabouts
Life in a start-up company can be anything but easy, as Lionel Milgrom discovered
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10 May 2005: Remembrance of links past
Using ab initio calculations, researchers in Switzerland and Italy have now found a rational explanation for spooky molecular memories.
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9 May 2005: Scientists tangle over tau
The aggregations of tangled nerves in patients with neurodegenerative disease could be good rather than bad news, argue scientists in the US.
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11 May 2005: In vitro generation of infectious scrapie prions
New work adds weight to the hypothesis that proteins alone are the infectious agent in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), including BSE, vCJD and scrapie.