Biology & Life Sciences

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Chemistry World July 27, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Sticky nanotubes detect bacteria in seconds Sticky nanotubes that trap bacteria like flypaper can be used to identify bacterial infections in seconds rather than days, report Spanish chemists.
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 James Urquhart	From methane to liquid gold The world's supplies of oil may be larger than we think - or at least that is what researchers from the US, Russia and Sweden are speculating now they have shown that hydrocarbons can be formed in the mantle from methane.
Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Prenatal exposure to urban pollutants lowers IQ Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are byproducts from burning organic material, and their primary source in cities is motor vehicle emissions.
Chemistry World July 22, 2009 Phil Taylor	New drug turns Alzheimer's theory on its head Researchers have been left puzzled by data showing that the antihistamine dimebolin, a drug with promising activity in improving Alzheimer's symptoms, actually seems to increase levels of the toxic protein beta amyloid.
Wired July 20, 2009 Erin Biba	Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast How a professor reanimated ancient yeast from amber fossils and used them to make a new kind of beer.
Wired July 20, 2009 David Wolman	10 Worst Evolutionary Designs Odd problems for different species.
Scientific American August 2009 Peter Brown	Night Stalker: White-Nose Fungus in Bats -- Why It's Our Problem, Too No end in sight for the bat-killing white-nose syndrome
Scientific American August 2009 David Jay Brown	Salvia on Schedule: Law, Medicine and a Hallucinogen Scheduling the mind-altering herb as a controlled substance could slow medical research
Scientific American August 2009 Kate Wong	Weak Link: Fossil Darwinius Has Its 15 Minutes Skepticism about a fossil cast as a missing link in human ancestry
Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Philip Ball	Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent.
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