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Chemistry World April 16, 2007 Tom Westgate	Smallest Pipette Delivers Zeptoliter Volumes The world's smallest pipette has been developed by scientists. It is capable of dispensing drops of a molten gold-germanium alloy with a volume of a few zeptoliters, that is, a billionth of a trillionth of a liter.
Chemistry World April 13, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Organic Food Isotopes How do you distinguish 'organic' tomatoes from those grown with the help of synthetic fertilizers? By testing their nitrogen isotope ratios, suggest UK researchers.
Chemistry World April 12, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Preserved T. Rex Proteins Assist Evolution Studies Palaeontologists and biochemists have joined forces to identify proteins from a 68-million-year-old T. Rex, showing that organic matter containing biological information can be preserved for enormous lengths of time under the right conditions.
Chemistry World April 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Fatty Acid Factory Revealed X-ray crystallographers have achieved the Herculean task of elucidating the architecture of one of biochemistry's most impressive molecular machines, the multi-enzyme fatty acid synthase.
Chemistry World April 11, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Fuel Cells Guzzle Glycerol Fuel cells traditionally use oxidizing platinum catalysts to generate a flow of electrons from molecules like hydrogen or methanol. But such catalysts are expensive and can produce toxic byproducts. Now researchers are using microbial fuel cells.
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Chemical Probe Seeks Out DNA Damage Researchers have developed a novel way to detect damage on DNA. The finding could open the way to a new toolkit of molecular probes to investigate the impact of chemical modifications on DNA, potentially providing insights into the way that mutations in DNA can result in cancers.
Science News April 7, 2007 Janet Raloff	Crusty Chemistry Chemists report simple ways to tweak the recipe and make a whole wheat pizza crust potentially healthier.
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Nanoparticles Make Better MRI Images Manganese oxide nanoparticles have been used as contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging, allowing researchers to see inside living brains in the same detail as dissected tissue under a microscope.
Chemistry World April 4, 2007 John Bonner	Antibiotic Combinations Tackle Resistance Using combinations of certain antimicrobial compounds can favor the growth of non-resistant strains of bacteria at the expense of resistant ones. The surprising finding may provide a general strategy to help eradicate strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic therapy.
Chemistry World April 3, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Historic Sunset Regained US chemists are racing against time to recreate sunsets which have disappeared from the watercolors of American painter Winslow Homer.
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