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Science News
September 23, 2006 |
Science Safari: Tox Town This Web site from the U.S. National Library of Medicine offers an interactive introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks. The site includes many links to additional information and a section for teachers.   |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2006
Michael Gross |
Alzheimer's Alphabet Alzheimer's researchers are now closer to understanding the natural function of one of the two enzymes that cut A out of APP, and have recreated the process by which fibril formation begins in vivo. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2006
Victoria Gill |
`Silent Killer' as Treatment for Heart and Lung Disease Carbon Monoxide (CO), a gas once dubbed the `silent killer' by the UK's health and safety executive, could provide a life-saving treatment for an incurable lung and heart condition, report researchers. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2006
Michael Gross |
Any Colour so Long as it's Green Researchers have developed a polymer coating that kills microbes on contact and thus renders a surface permanently sterile without releasing a chemical into the environment. |
Bio-IT World
September 2006
Kevin Davies |
Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2006
Michael Gross |
Iron Chelates Beat Cancer Cancer cells need more iron than normal body cells to sustain their abnormally rapid growth. Researchers have now identified one particularly potent chelate complex that helps deplete tumors of iron. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 58 |
Drug Discovery at a Snail's Pace Researchers isolated a toxin from the venomous cone sea snail. This nerve poison latches on to brain receptors and its chemical structure could be used to design new drugs that interact with these receptors and treat psychiatric and brain diseases. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 58 |
Anthrax Detector Researchers have developed a detector for anthrax spores based on a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a specific sugar on the bacterium. It might be possible to use this discovery to develop a passive immunization method. |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2006
Mark Peplow |
Hyperlinked Book Makes Its Debut ChemgaBook, an innovative text book that has built-in links to online multimedia content, has made its debut at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco. |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Online Access to Centuries of Pioneering Science The Royal Society today launched its complete journals archive in electronic form, making it freely available online for two months. |
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