News – Page 630
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Predicting how proteins fold
Researchers have developed new ways of simulating the folding of membrane proteins, which could aid drug development
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Cold chemistry
Chemical reactions at extremely low temperatures, for instance in interstellar clouds, can run at surprisingly fast rates
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New UK science minister
Ian Pearson, formerly of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has replaced Malcolm Wicks as science minister
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Stiff drink for Europe's legislators
European parliament drafts legally binding technical standards for around 50 spirit drinks
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Institute to study how we age
Germany's Max Planck society has formally approved creation of a new research institute that will focus on the biology of aging
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Virulence from the deep sea
Genetic traits of chemosynthetic bacteria living in the deep sea have evolved into virulence traits in common gut bacteria
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Transistor tuned to ion channel
Living cells coupled to transistors pick up the cellular response to serotonin as an electronic signal.
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UK science moves into new department
Cabinet reshuffle creates Department for Innovations, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
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UK crawls to carbon capture
The world's first integrated plant to capture and store carbon dioxide
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Nanowire shines light on subwavelength microscopy
Potassium niobate nanowire acts as a novel light source for a new type of microscope
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Business roundup: July 2007
A depressing ruling for obesity drug A decision by a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on 13 June was a double blow for French drug firm, Sanofi-Aventis. Their long-awaited obesity drug, rimonabant, marketed in Europe as Acomplia, was not recommended for approval by the FDA. ...
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To chew or to burn?
Preview: Figuring out the best - and cheapest - ways of unlocking the energy stored in the cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose bound up in plant waste.
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First internationally licensed Chinese herbal patent
China has licensed its first herbal compound patent to an overseas pharmaceutical company
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Seeing the environmental wood for the nanotech trees
German environmentalists have issued a 24-page report on potential health and environmental risks of nanotechnology. But others question its value.
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Why aspirin doesn't always stop blood clots
Some people are resistant to the blood-thinning properties of aspirin
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Mimicking biophysics with water droplets
Drops of water have been micro-engineered into 'protocells'