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Successful collagen synthesis comes to a sticky end
US chemists have synthesised collagen fibres with dimensions similar to natural collagen, predicting the advent of 'bionic man'.
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Remarkable health claims leave nutritionist unimpressed
Nutritionists warn against exaggeration of preliminary food-related findings.
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Storing up high hopes for hydrogen economy
Polymer scientists have joined the race to store hydrogen as fuel.
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Nanoparticles detect cell suicide plans
Nanotechnological assay for detecting programmed cell death.
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Medical future for tiny quantum dots
US researchers have crossed a milestone in biological imaging by developing quantum dots small enough to pass from the blood stream into bodily tissue.
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Silicon conducts an electrical surprise
Silicon can conduct electricity when experts assumed it couldn't, sparking a surprising direction in silicon electronics.
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Calls for UK investment in carbon capture
The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets.
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To boldly go where no chemist has gone before
Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space.
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Plant-derived drug approved in US
First US regulatory approval for plant-derived drug developed by Dow AgroSciences.
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Europe gets hot and bothered over sun cream labelling
Europe's cosmetics industry is launching a counter-offensive against demands for tougher regulation on sun creams.
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Head-to-tail monomers improve solar cell efficiency
British and South Korean researchers have improved the efficiency of polymer-based solar cells.
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Europe tightens fluorinated gas restrictions
EU environment commissioner threatens tougher controls on fluorinated gases implicated in global warming.
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High throughput screening for kinase inhibitors
A colorimetric assay for kinase activity based on the aggregation of gold nanoparticles.
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Researchers put bioenergetics into biomagnification
Mathematical model could predict how industrial pollutants accumulate in different animal species.
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Competition and confidentiality under Reach
Global competitiveness is motivation for the chemical industry to make the EU's Reach legislation work.
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Chiral catalysis on a chip
Chiral catalysis and analytical separation of the resulting enantiomers can now be performed on a single chip.
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Sharing out the lab measurement billions
Agilent has updated over 40 per cent of its high pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry ranges.
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Nanoencapsulation paves the way to perfumed pants
High street fashions and products to clean them could soon use nanotechnology to deliver distinctive fragrances.
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Stark warning for science education
The first statistical analysis of UK school science teaching in a decade highlights serious gaps in the physical sciences.