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Chemistry World January 16, 2007 Michael Gross	Bioassays Work on Paper New analytical techniques with ever smaller volumes, multiple functionalities, and the ability to run masses of assays in parallel, tend to rely on ever more expensive materials and equipment. Chemists have now bucked this trend by developing a bioassay tool that can be printed on paper.
Scientific American February 2007 Marguerite Holloway	Graft and Host, Together Forever Thomas E. Starzl pioneered organ transplantation with antirejection drugs, an approach he hopes to end through a phenomenon called microchimerism
Scientific American January 17, 2007 Charles Q. Choi	A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials.
Chemistry World January 15, 2007 Henry Nicholls	Bees Get a Buzz From Dancing Researchers have identified a brain chemical that could account for the elaborate dance of the honeybee, one of the most complex behaviors in the invertebrate world.
Chemistry World January 15, 2007 John Bonner	Human Proteins Produced in Hens' Eggs Scientists have laid the foundations for a new method of producing complex biomolecules: getting chickens to lay them in their eggs.
Chemistry World January 12, 2007 John Bonner	First Drug for Fat Dogs Pfizer has been granted a licence by the US FDA to market the world's first medical treatment for canine obesity. Slentrol is a selective microsomal triglyceride transfer protein inhibitor, blocking the assembly and release of lipids from the gut wall into the bloodstream.
Chemistry World January 11, 2007 Victoria Gill	How to Survive at 400 Degrees C Certain deep-sea residents manage to survive their searingly hot, toxic habitat by making their own food. Chemists in the US have now identified the molecules that make this possible.
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Michael Gross	Fixing the Nitrogen Balance Researchers have found that global nitrogen cycles can be more easily balanced out than previously thought, as sources and sinks of usable nitrogen are geographically close and respond to each other in rapid feedback.
Chemistry World January 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	A Nanotech Solution to Wrinkled Skin Researchers who have discovered that nanoparticles prevent thin polymer films from buckling say their concept could be applied to stop human skin wrinkling too.
Chemistry World January 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	One Lump or Two? A splash of milk might make tea taste nicer, but it could neutralize the drink's health benefits, researchers have suggested.
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