All articles by Bea Perks – Page 9
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A pheromone a day keeps the midges away
Chemical ecologists have taken a key step towards understanding the sex life of a notorious insect pest. The discovery spells good news for apple growers.
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Record breakers
Materials scientists at the University of Oxford, UK, are poised to join the Guinness World Records hall of fame with their latest breakthrough - the world's smallest test tube.
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Drug developers face discrimination charge
Historically, members of the Black and Asian communities have been under-represented in clinical trials, but tailoring drug development to race wouldn't redress any imbalance, say researchers.
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Lighting up the science debate
November 10th was a busy day at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
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Palatial surroundings for EuCheMS launch
European chemists gathered recently in the former home of late, disgraced RSC fellow Elena Ceausescu to launch the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS).
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Proteomics in a spin
Why turn to tens of thousands of pounds-worth of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment when a standard bench centrifuge will do? It's a question posed following the recent launch of Agilent Technologies' multiple affinity removal spin ca
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3D image maps out cancer spread
Chemists at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, US, have developed a nano-sized dendrimer-based MRI agent they say could reduce the trauma associated with breast cancer surgery.
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The man who mistook his data book for bedside reading
In an effort to engage the public, and simply because they enjoy it, chemists are turning to the arts to simplify scientific language. But sometimes the language itself can be stimulating, says one best-selling author.
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Don't bother flambée-ing that steak
Texan chemists have discovered flame-retardant additives in supermarket meat.
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A drop in the ocean
With all that extra atmospheric CO2 being soaked up by the sea, the Royal Society has embarked on a study to find out what is currently known about the possible effects of a consequent drop in pH on marine biosystems.
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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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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 molecules to proteins, chemistry meets biology
The European Bioinformatics Institute has launched a freely available dictionary of 'small molecular entities'.