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Chemistry World
August 24, 2015
Cesar Palmero |
Flushing advice is flawed Instructions given to the public by water companies and other authorities in the aftermath of chemical contamination are inconsistent and not validated by science.   |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Cancer biomarker counted up with the naked eye The new technique uses genetically-modified fluorescent viruses to label biomarkers of disease, allowing them to be spotted by eye with an accuracy that is comparable to quantitative polymerase chain reaction. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Ants sniff out subtle chemical differences to navigate social hierarchies Ants can distinguish between very subtle differences in hydrocarbons, including enantiomers, researchers in the US have found. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Biotech breakthrough as yeast makes painkillers from sugar The first strain of yeast that can synthesize painkilling opioids from scratch using a sugar feedstock has been engineered by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Jessie-May Morgan |
Antioxidant assumptions flipped for garlic thiosulfinates New mechanistic investigations at the interface of chemistry and biology reveal thiosulfinates of garlic and petiveria are not the superstars of the antioxidant world they were once thought to be. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2015
Heather Powell |
Study probes role of chemical corruption in origin of life Researchers are incorporating what they describe as defective compounds into their experiments to help them understand how the first molecules of life formed. |
Chemistry World
August 11, 2015
James Urquhart |
Sweetening imaging of disease processes US researchers have imaged cell-surface glycans -- sugars bonded to proteins or lipids -- throughout the internal tissues of live zebrafish for the first time. |
Chemistry World
August 10, 2015
Kira Welter |
Peptide glue may have held first protocell components together Electrostatic interactions induced by short, positively charged, hydrophobic peptides are all it takes to attach RNA to vesicle membranes. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2015
Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Bee immune system discovery points way to pollinator 'vaccines' Bees use an egg yolk protein to prime their offspring's immune system against different pathogens, Finnish researchers have discovered. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2015
Emma Stephen |
Molecular container mops up tricaine to reverse anaesthesia in fish A lack of clinically available antidotes for general anesthesia has prompted a team of researchers in China and Canada to explore the potential of a macrocyclic compound for halting anesthesia in zebrafish. |
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