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More sex and grapefruit to keep you young?
A simple naturally occurring polyamine has been found to prolong the lifespan of a number of organisms
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Paper pesticide sensor
Researchers have developed a paper-based sensor to quickly detect pesticide residues in food and drink samples
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Microwave effect ruled out
Microwave-blocking reaction vials rule out special microwave effects for most simple reactions
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EPA issues nanotechnology research strategy
US agency to proactively study nanomaterials of environmental concern
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Just add helium for metallic nanotubes
Changing carrier gas during nanotube production dramatically improves ratio of metallic tubes
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Engineering plants to make vaccines
Noroviruses, also known as 'winter vomiting disease' or the 'cruise ship virus', spreads very quickly
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The chemical composition of death
During the American Chemical Society's Fall meeting in Washington, DC, Sarah Jones and Dan Sykes, from Pennsylvania State University, presented work
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Study questions Olympics air efforts
Air pollution exceeded guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was about one third higher than reported by Chinese officials during the Games.
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Cutting-edge drug pioneer goes to new battlefield
Hu started his medical career as a barefoot doctor working in the countrywide in the remote northwestern Chinese province of Heilongjiang
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Slim access to China key drug scheme funds
Funding through China's multi-billion yuan key drug development scheme could become harder to come by
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Gene therapy in patent wars
Peng Zhaohui, the father of the world's first commercialised gene therapy, Gendicine, is now fighting a legal war with the company he established
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NewsProposed rare metal ban unlikely to impact market
China is planning a reshuffle of its rare earth metal industry
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Heavy metal poisoning sparks protests in China
A serious case of pollution in Fengxiang County in northwestern Shaanxi Province in early August led to 174 children from three villages being diagnosed with lead poisoning.
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China's emissions to peak early
This week a Chinese think tank formally predicted that the country has the potential to reduce its carbon emissions significantly earlier than previously expected.
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Funding misuse shakes Chinese science base
On 1 September, the Central Audit Office released a shocking report, exposing 54 ministries or central government-affiliated institutions as having misused their funding.
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News in brief: October 2009
Electron clouds unveiled For years, undergraduate chemists have been shown pictures depicting the atomic orbitals of atoms as described by the Schrödinger equation. But now, researchers from the Kharkov Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine, have gone one better and managed to directly image the electron density surrounding a ...