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New probe promises ozone answers
A highly selective new probe should help address controversial claims that cells make ozone
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The natural approach to winning at drug discovery
How to bias high throughput screening libraries
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Business roundup: June 2009
Animal testing amendments The European parliament has voted in favour of ’watering down’ its directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes - enabling researchers to continue conducting animal experiments to assess the safety of new drugs and chemicals. Last year, the European Commission proposed a range of ...
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Nanotube transistors swing both ways
Combination nanotransistors turn on and off in response to light
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Salt nanowire surprise
Normally brittle salt crystals can be pulled into nanowires that extend by more than twice their own length without breaking
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Wine's chemical memory
Even 10 years after bottling, wine still holds a chemical imprint of the forest from which the wooden barrel it was aged in came
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A concrete solution to climate change?
Concrete absorbs CO2, but can it solve the cement industry's carbon problem?
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Toxic mushroom molecule discovered
A simple compound has been found to be the toxic culprit in a highly poisonous Asian mushroom
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'Fountain pen' injects nanodiamonds
Researchers have demonstrated a tool that can pattern nanodiamonds at high resolution and inject them into single cells
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'Printing' organs with hydrogels
Tissue grafts could one day be grown on cell-containing scaffolds printed using a polymer hydrogel 'ink'
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Catalyst kinetics revealed
Researchers identify key step in reaction mechanism of a silver-alumina catalyst used in lean burn engines
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Big Pharma set for generics boost
Novartis and Pfizer look to generics as the patent cliff looms
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FDA gets new chief
Incoming commissioner Hamburg is a bioterrorism preparedness expert with significant public health experience
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NewsLong-awaited structure of famous enzyme challenges the textbooks
'Microenvironment' concept corrected for AADase, the enzyme often cited as a classic example of the theory
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Chemical pollution gets personal
Researchers have measured the rise and fall of chemicals in their own bodies after using everyday products
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New ceramic dating process unearthed
By measuring moisture recombination in ceramics, scientists have found a new way to date ancient pottery and brickwork
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Skills in industry: change needed from within
Leading industrialists call for companies to invest in training and development