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Chemistry World
September 15, 2013
Andy Extance |
Light-switch antibiotics could undermine resistance Dutch chemists have made a new weapon to fight bacteria: an antibiotic whose microbe-killing activity they can turn on using ultraviolet light, before it slowly diminishes.   |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2013
Laura Howes |
Taking temperature with a temporary tattoo John Rogers of the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign and his team have just published their latest advance - creating a flexible wearable thermometer. |
Chemistry World
September 13, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Spicing up water purification A team of US undergraduates have shown that coriander has excellent heavy metal binding properties, which they say could help provide people in developing countries with safer drinking water. |
Chemistry World
September 12, 2013
Paola Quattroni |
Brain cancer severity linked with oxidation state of iron New research shows that the higher the malignancy grade of a brain tumor, the higher the iron(ii) to iron(iii) ratio in human brain tissue. The finding could point to new approaches for measuring the malignancy grade of tumors. |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Call to overhaul liver toxicity testing Outdated assays for monitoring liver health could have caused dozens of drug candidates to be wrongly scrapped during development, according to new research. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Mosquito repellents from skin secretions Those plagued by mosquitoes may one day be able to ditch the DEET in favour of substances naturally produced by skin, according to researchers at the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. |
Chemistry World
September 9, 2013
David Bradley |
Worrying molecule found in bottled water Researchers at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology, have turned their attention to bottled water given growing concerns that such products might contain worrying levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals. |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Cracked bones attract healing nanoparticles A US team have used drug-loaded nanoparticles to detect and heal tiny cracks in human bones. Their system uses ions leaking from the crack to draw the particles to damaged areas. |
AskMen.com
James Fell |
Are Steroids Addictive? I recommend that you avoid them from a health perspective (as well as a legal one), but I won't condemn anyone who chooses to ignore this advice. |
Chemistry World
August 29, 2013
Angharad Rosser-James |
Personal kidney disease monitoring on your phone The Albumin Tester, a digital fluorescent tube reader accompanied by an android smart phone app could be used by people in their own home to monitor the health of their kidneys have been developed by scientists in the US. |
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