News – Page 692
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Searching for drugs
A new set of simple empirical rules for drug design that avoids any 'wet' chemistry or complicated calculations has been mooted by chemists in Cambridge, UK.
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Technical trouble
Paul Boateng, chief secretary to the Treasury in the UK, has called on politicians and scientists to recognise the importance of further education (FE) in the UK.
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The birds the bees and the platypuses
Complex genetics of platypus sex determination - part bird, part mammal
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Under the hammer
Those wanting to make a quick buck could do worse than raiding their old schools' chemistry laboratories. An RSC periodic table poster recently sold for a staggering £6000, with a second selling for £3600.
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Careful chlorine measurements
Researchers in the US have reported a new robust system to measure accurately very low concentrations of chlorine in fossil fuels.
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Did volcanoes help life erupt
Early peptides could have been formed from amino acids in volcanic gas
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Drug developers face discrimination charge
Historically, members of the Black and Asian communities have been under-represented in clinical trials, but tailoring drug development to race wouldn't redress any imbalance, say researchers.
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Ionic liquids pair up for catalysis
Researchers have taken a key step towards rationalising the solvent properties of ionic liquids (ILs), which are composed entirely of ions and have been hailed the 'green' solvents of the future.
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Length matters for carbon nanotubes
Long carbon nanotubes hold promise for new composite materials
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Lighting up the science debate
November 10th was a busy day at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.