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Long distance relationships
New work on information transfer in molecules sheds light on enzyme reactivity
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Macromolecular menagerie
How polymers, whether man-made or biological, organise themselves into structures ranging in size from nanometres to micrometres was the subject of a Faraday Discussion meeting, Self-organising polymers, in Leeds, UK, earlier this year.
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Making bonds all over again
Recycling catalysts brings new dimension to carbon-carbon bond formation
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Metal mimics
German scientists have made progress in the quest to mimic the activity of catechol oxidase, the copper-containing enzyme found in fungi, bacteria and plants.
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Microchips killed the radio star
Scientists from the US have adapted standard equipment used for making vinyl records to assemble cell networks and produce microfluidic structures.
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Mirror on chemistry
The public's attitude towards chemistry is improving but what future do art students see?
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20 years after Bhopal
Campaigners in India and worldwide have been making plans for a concerted effort to mark the 20th anniversary of the methyl isocyanate gas leak from a Union Carbide (UC) pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, on 3 December 1984.
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A pheromone a day keeps the midges away
Chemical ecologists have taken a key step towards understanding the sex life of a notorious insect pest. The discovery spells good news for apple growers.
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A-peeling polymers
Researchers at the University of Hull, UK, have developed a new self-assembly technique to make arrays of microlenses.
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Boat shaped by design
A miniature protein with a stable folded boat-shaped structure has been designed by a team of Indian chemists.
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Buckyballs get a soft landing
When the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry went to the discoverers of C60, or 'buckyballs' as they were affectionately known, the fullerenes suddenly shot to superstar status. And interest in them continues afresh, with researchers in Germany now isolating C5
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New light on ion channels
By using artificial ion channels based on gramicidin, a bacterial toxin, scientists from Canada and Germany are quite literally illuminating nerve cell processes.
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RNA enters the construction trade
Scientists believe that nanoscale devices may be created on large RNA arrays.