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Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Worker bees 'chemically castrated' through diet The role of the phytochemical p-coumaric acid in determining whether female honey bee larvae develop into queens or workers has been discovered unexpectedly by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Nanoscale microscopy casts light on cellular dynamics Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US, have fine tuned an off-shoot of their super-resolution microscopy technique to image dynamic processes within the cell membrane for the first time. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2015 Christopher Barnard |
Individual microRNA molecules detected with a single microbead An elegant strategy for detecting minuscule quantities of microRNA using just a single functionalized microbead could be an important innovation for biomedical research and molecular diagnostics. |
Chemistry World August 26, 2015 Sarah Houlton |
Female sexual desire drug approved Almost five years after Boehringer Ingelheim stopped development on the female hypoactive sexual desire disorder treatment flibanserin, it has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. |
Chemistry World August 26, 2015 Andrea McGhee |
How could a tree make tramadol? Researchers in France, Switzerland and Cameroon are convinced that the African pin-cushion tree produces the well-known painkiller Tramadol and are determined to prove it. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Simple chemistry saving thousands of gold miners from mercury poisoning Every year, thanks to mining practices that have persisted for centuries, huge amounts of mercury pollute the atmosphere and poison hundreds of thousands of people in some of the world's poorest countries. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemists wage war on designer drugs It is relatively simple to take a drug that has a known psychoactive effect and change one substituent group to make it into another drug that is not yet classified as illegal but provides the same or similar psychoactive high |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Fiona Case |
Alternative nutraceutical delivery method proposed An alternative approach has been proposed for encapsulating and delivering nutraceuticals using particle-stabilized Pickering emulsions in place of the surfactant stabilized materials. |
Information Today August 25, 2015 |
NLM and NEH Partner for Upcoming Workshop and Other Initiatives The organizations plan to use their partnership to encourage high-quality humanities, biomedical, and cultural heritage scholarship. |
Chemistry World August 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
New drug treatment for alcoholism shows promise in animal studies Beta-carbolines developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, US, could offer a novel treatment for alcoholism that targets a specific receptor in the brain, rather than simply reducing dopamine levels. |
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