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Chemistry World March 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Cell's Protein Factory Seen in Action Researchers have observed one of nature's most remarkable molecular machines in action.  |
Chemistry World March 6, 2008 John Bonner |
Soaking Spuds Cuts Cancer-Risk Chemical in Chips Washing raw potatoes in an enzyme solution, or even in water alone, can reduce the levels of a potential carcinogen produced when cooking French fries.  |
Chemistry World March 5, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Chemical Cues Warn Ants of Invaders Animal biologists and chemists have joined forces to solve a chemical mystery that the insect world has kept for over a century -- discovering the subtle chemical cues that ants use to tell friend from foe.  |
Chemistry World March 5, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Arsenic Enhances Cancer Imaging Locating tumors with pin-point accuracy could soon be possible with a new therapy that uses radioactive arsenic.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Q and A: Do Antidepressants Work? A widely-reported analysis of clinical trial data for Prozac and related antidepressant drugs has claimed that the medicines work little better than chemically-inactive placebos in all but the most severely depressed patients.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Your Hair Knows Where You've Been From a single strand of hair, scientists can now determine where a person has been living recently.  |
Wired February 25, 2008 Julie Sloane |
15th Anniversary: DNA-Customized Medicine Still Stuck in the Pipeline Gene scanning isn't yet standard practice. But over the past six years, medicine has been inching closer to prescriptions that are custom-matched to a patients' DNA.  |
Wired February 25, 2008 Greta Lorge |
Infoporn: Humans Crawling With Microbes?! That's Not All Bad. Your body is a wonderland -- for bacteria, viruses, and fungi.  |
Chemistry World February 25, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Mouldy Old Mystery Solved After 70 years of research, the definitive structure of a key compound in the plant-destroying Phytophthora pathogen has finally been revealed.  |
Chemistry World February 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Anti-Cholesterol Drugs May Damage Cellular Power Station Certain cholesterol-reducing drugs appear to damage mitochondria, the tiny power stations inside living cells.  |
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