News – Page 650
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Alzheimer's alphabet
Discovery of the normal healthy function of proteins that malfunction in Alzheimer's disease points to possible treatments.
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Business roundup: October 2006
Ivory Coast’s toxic disaster Source: © REUTERS Waste material Waste material - known as slops - unloaded by a ship in the Ivory Coast city port of Abidjan has led to the deaths of seven people, widespread sickness, and dismissal of the entire government. Ships ...
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'Silent killer' as treatment for heart and lung disease
Researchers have used carbon monoxide to reverse the effects of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Any colour so long as it's green
New anti-microbial polymer coating can be applied from aqueous suspension.
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Online access to centuries of pioneering science
The Royal Society has launched its complete journals archive in electronic form.
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Red oxygen structure revealed
Researchers have cracked the crystalline structure of an enigmatic phase of solid oxygen arising when the molecule is subjected to high pressure.
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Treating post traumatic stress with stress hormones
The stress hormone corticosterone could be developed into a treatment for post traumatic stress disorder .
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Germany puts OLEDs under the spotlight
Multi-million-Euro initiative to turn Germany into an OLED global powerhouse.
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Solar cells reach into the infrared
Innovative dye increases the amount of sunlight that can be harvested by solar panels
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Bacteria silenced by conversation stoppers
Molecules that interrupt the chemical communication of bacterial communities show antibiotic promise.
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Iron chelator offers sun burn relief
A sun cream that mops up sun-generated free iron in the skin could heal sun burn and help prevent skin cancer.
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Conference blog
Instant updates from the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, California, 10-14 September
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Molecular framework sucks up hydrogen
A new material that absorbs significant amounts of hydrogen has been reported by UK chemists.
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Selective shortcut
Simple catalyst speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in complex syntheses.
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Antibodies in the greenhouse
Producing immunoglobulins in plants could yield gram quantities of these precious proteins.