Biology & Life Sciences

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Chemistry World August 20, 2014 Maria Burke	Doctors turn to experimental Ebola treatments The emergency use of an experimental medicine is highly unusual, but the WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
Chemistry World August 18, 2014 James Urquhart	History of King Richard III written in his teeth The chemistry of King Richard III's bones and teeth has shed light on how his social status, diet and where he lived changed during his life.
Chemistry World August 18, 2014 Laura Fisher	Radiolabels help evaluate emerging cancer treatment Researchers in Spain have come up with a way to track the biodistribution of a boron cluster complex used to prepare boron-carrier drugs for a prospective cancer treatment called boron neutron capture therapy.
Chemistry World August 14, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Photoredox route to medically-important heterocycles Researchers in the US have developed a new photo catalyzed coupling reaction that could provide a pathway to a huge number of biologically active compounds.
Chemistry World August 12, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Knock-out theory puts new spin on general anesthesia Consciousness may be extinguished through mysterious quantum biological effects that cause subtle changes in the electronic state of proteins, say researchers.
Chemistry World August 12, 2014 Emma Stoye	Catching criminals' coffee adulteration A test to detect counterfeit coffee -- ground beans that have been bulked up with cheap, low quality filler ingredients -- has been developed by scientists in Brazil.
Information Today August 12, 2014	New IEEE Journal Will Focus on Life Sciences IEEE will publish IEEE Life Sciences Letters, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, in 1Q 2015.
Chemistry World August 11, 2014 Hayley Simon	Supermarket scales for the microscopic world A new method for weighing the dry biomass of individual biological particles has been developed by researchers in the US.
Chemistry World August 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Yongmei Zheng: Spider silk and butterfly wings Research in the Zheng group looks at biological and bioinspired surfaces with wettability functions.
Chemistry World August 7, 2014 Christopher Exley	Bioinorganic chemistry This type of text was not available in the early days of bioinorganic chemistry and may now serve to fast track our understanding of the topic.
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