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Chemistry World
May 6, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Building Peptides From the Wrong End UK chemists have cracked a long-standing problem in peptide synthesis that has prevented amino acid chains being grown from both ends. The insight could open up efficient ways to make peptide-based drugs.   |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Synthesis boost for HIV research Hopes for a new type of HIV therapy have been raised by the first chemical synthesis of a scarce plant compound which flushes the virus out of hiding. |
Chemistry World
May 1, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Click chemistry illuminates embryo development US researchers have smuggled modified sugar molecules into a developing zebrafish embryo and then used 'click chemistry' to snap a fluorescent tag onto them to watch cells and tissues forming. |
Chemistry World
May 1, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
Blood Substitutes Pose Worrying Risks Oxygen-carrying blood substitutes currently in clinical trials are associated with a much higher likelihood of serious adverse events such as heart attack and death. |
Chemistry World
May 2008
Philip Ball i |
Pulling our strings There is much more to DNA than that elegant double helix. The author explores the twists and tangles of chromatin. |
Chemistry World
May 2008
Philip Ball |
The crucible When the going gets tough, the tough get sweet. There are many physiological responses to cold conditions, but one of the common strategies for insects is to fill their cells with sugar. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Chemical compass clue to migration mystery Trying to identify the mysterious innate compass that many animals use to navigate the globe, chemists at the University of Oxford, UK, have shown for the first time that the Earth's magnetic field can influence the outcome of a chemical reaction. |
Chemistry World
April 28, 2008
Victoria Gill |
Gene silencing gets fat A team of researchers in the US has developed fat-like nanoparticles that can carry fragments of RNA into cells, bring treatments based on gene silencing a step closer. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2008
Jane Qiu |
Bitter melon yields sweet results for diabetes Researchers have identified active ingredients in the warty green fruit that could lead to new treatments for diabetes. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Thomas Goetz |
Why Medicine Should Care Less About "Sick," More About "Normal" Predictive medicine relies on knowing ranges of normal values so that it can screen for results outside of this range early on. Unfortunately, funding organizations are not interested in what is normal. |
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