All articles by Laura Howes – Page 10
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Clicking together synthetic antibodies
Enzymes can be used as templates to produce synthetic antibodies via click chemistry reactions
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FeatureQuasicrystals scoop prize
The 2011 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Daniel Shechtman, fought hard to win acceptance of his discovery: quasicrystals. Laura Howes tells how perseverance led to the ultimate recognition
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Crystals that aren't quite crystalline win Nobel
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals
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Fuelling the future
Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term, as Laura Howes finds out
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Conjuring up gram quantities of stabilising anion
German chemists have made gram quantities of an extremely useful anion via a rather scary route
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Science budget ringfence questioned by report
Changes to what is defined as science could see the UK science budget fall by as much as £1.7 billion
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Aspirin still has some secrets left to give up
Researchers discover an overlooked chemical interaction in aspirin that could help understand protein structure
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Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames
Environmentally friendly polymer coating expands to form a flame-proof foam in the face of fire
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ACS aims to stimulate creation of 100,000 jobs
US chemical society hopes lobbying on tax and R&D credits will boost chemistry entrepreneurial spirit
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G-quadruplexes take the strain in cancer drug search
Measuring how small molecules interact with structures such as telomeres could throw up cancer drug targets
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Making light work of disassembling capped nanotubes
Researchers have designed self-assembling nanotubes can be taken apart using just light
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Cyclodextrin dimer makes synthetic polymerase
Chemists have created a synthetic polymerase that can produce long chains of polyesters
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Putting structural transformations under the microscope
Scientists have watched a first order structural transformation at the molecule level
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Chemically evolved bacteria
New strain of E. coli uses alien DNA bases to the rest of life on Earth, and could improve the biosecurity of synthetic biology
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Beyond the frontiers
In space and Antarctica, planning and running research projects transcends national borders. Laura Howes finds out how this affects the way researchers operate
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Mystery of how plutonium enters cells solved
Plutonium enters cells by hitching a ride on a protein which could lead to ways to block uptake
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Cells turned into living lasers with fluorescent protein
Physicists have made a laser that uses a fluorescent cell as the gain medium to amplify the light beam
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Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule
Transition state theory may have to be rethought as quantum tunnelling affects products of an organic reaction
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MPs warn funding reform threatens university places
Cross party committee warns that student places could be cut to counter a funding gap in UK higher education