News – Page 418
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Waste CO2-derived plastic hits tonne scale
Novomer turns emissions from ammonia plant into polymers
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Catching a reaction in the act
AFM images a reactant and its cyclised products on a silver surface
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Measuring indoor air pollution
New zeolite-based passive sampler for monitoring the air we breathe
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Fast flu mapping without the sequencing
New protein-based approach could build evolutionary trees faster than sequencing
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Polymer tied in celtic knots
Slow polymerisation process can create distinctive structures that can suture wounds
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Templates ring up uniform nanotubes
Carbon nanotube growth from ‘nanorings’ provides diameter control
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NewsChad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
This year’s prize has been awarded to US nanotechnologist Chad Mirkin for his work on spherical nucleic acids
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Microwaves show their hand
New technique can tell left from right even at low concentrations
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Egyptian research budget ‘unspent’
Egypt’s ministry of scientific research faces funding cuts, after failing to spend most of this year’s budget.
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The power of multivalency against cholera
Inhibitor combines a pentavalent scaffold with cell membrane sugar to trick and trap the cholera toxin
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Understanding sulfa drugs' side effects
Over 70 years since their first use, scientists discover how sulfanonamide drugs cause their neurological side effects
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Business
$500m fine over generics fraud for Ranbaxy
Company has pleaded guilty to fabricating data and producing substandard drugs
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NewsUS supreme court rules in favour of Monsanto
An Indiana farmer who was trying to replicate Monsanto-patented seeds infringed on the company’s intellectual property rights, the Supreme Court has determined
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ResearchDigitally unrolling historical scrolls
X-ray tomography can unroll and read parchment scrolls that have become stuck together.
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NewsLords Bill proposes animal research labelling for medicines
Bill aims to underline the necessity of animal experiments, says Robert Winston
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B-vitamins may delay Alzheimer’s onset
Taking B-vitamins keeps brain tissue healthier for longer, and may help stave off dementia
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Silver nanoparticles see the light
New method makes nanoparticles luminescent but mechanism remains unexplained