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Chemistry World
November 18, 2008
Matt Wilkinson |
The promise of algae As the hype surrounding corn-derived ethanol fades, interest in liquid fuels harvested from an alternative biological source - algae - is rapidly increasing. Several companies' efforts are detailed.   |
Outside
November 2008
Jason Daley |
5 Million Heads Are Better Than One After a half-century on his hands and knees, poking at bugs, Harvard ant geek and accidental eco-celebrity E.O. Wilson, 79, is back with The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies (W.W. Norton, $65) |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2008 |
The other half of an HIV mystery is solved When HIV infects a human immune cell, which of the cell's own genes play a role? |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
Chemistry World
November 10, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Nanotube scales challenge mass spectrometers By precisely measuring tiny fluctuations in mass, carbon nanotubes will allow chemists to follow reactions of individual proteins atom by atom, predict Spanish researchers |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Biodiesel from forest fungus US researchers have discovered a species of fungus that can convert cellulose directly into diesel - potentially opening a new route to biofuels. |
Chemistry World
November 5, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Caterpillars fight off ants with surfactant spit Caterpillars and related bugs can fight off insect predators by vomiting a surfactant solution over unwitting attackers, scientists have found. |
Chemistry World
October 31, 2008
Manisha Lalloo |
DNA-rewinding protein discovered US scientists have found an enzyme that rewinds sections of DNA whose strands have mistakenly come apart. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Popular Agrochemical Linked to Frog Disease A new study provides further evidence linking the herbicide Atrazine to a global decline in amphibian populations over the last three decades. |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Drug sandwich baits E. coli toxins Polymer scaffolds that pin molecules together at multiple binding sites can trap and destroy E. coli toxins by locking them to immune proteins, researchers based in Canada and Japan have found. |
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