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Chemistry World February 21, 2006 Jon Evans |
Nanotechnologists Set Viruses to Work Nanotechnologists are employing viruses as construction workers to help build lithium-ion batteries and solar cells. The program follows the successful development of a method for creating ordered layers of M13 bacteriophage viruses.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 52 David Bradley |
Interview with Gary Martin With more than 35 years experience in NMR spectroscopy, Gary Martin reveals some of the insights he has gained in this field.  |
Scientific American March 2006 Jonathan Weiner |
From Surmise to Sunrise Book Reviews: From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin, Edited by Edward O. Wilson... Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea, Edited, with commentary, by James D. Watson... Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral by David Dobbs...  |
Scientific American March 2006 |
Con Men in Lab Coats Five decades after it was revealed as a forgery, the Piltdown man still haunts paleoanthropology. Now, thanks to the disgraced stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, cell biology has a high-profile scandal of its own to live down.  |
Scientific American March 2006 Sara Beardsley |
Down in Flames Can stem cell research recover from Woo Suk Hwang?  |
Chemistry World February 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Dietary Needs Outweigh Risks Associated with Fish Consumption The benefits of a diet rich in fish outweigh risks of mercury poisoning, say researchers who studied the children of mothers exposed to methyl mercury during pregnancy. The researchers are calling for action from policy makers.  |
Chemistry World February 17, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Designing liposomes to avoid chemotherapy side effects The side effects of a common chemotherapy agent, cisplatin, can be avoided if the molecule is encapsulated in a finely tuned liposome, claim Danish biophysicists.  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Pharmaceutical Promise in the Desert Two molecules that inhibit a protein linked to cancer pathogenesis have been discovered in the Arizona desert.  |
Smithsonian February 2006 Tom Shachtman |
Medical Sleuth To prosecutors in 1999, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas. Today, his award-winning genetics research and pediatric clinic serve Southeastern Pennsylvania's Amish families -- and the world.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2006 |
Remarkable Health Claims Leave Nutritionist Unimpressed In a week when research groups reported the cholesterol-lowering powers of red grapefruit and the cancer-fighting potential of cauliflower and broccoli, nutritionists have warned against the exaggeration of preliminary food-related findings.  |
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