Chemistry

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Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Bea Perks	Eastern Blot on the Landscape Molecular biologists in Japan claimed to have investigated the small molecules in ginseng, a key component of traditional Chinese medicine, with something they call an eastern blot - the technique adapted, they say, from the western blot.
Chemistry World May 3, 2007 Simon Hadlington	The Many Faces of Platinum Researchers in the U.S. and China have discovered a way to grow multi-faceted nanocrystals of platinum that have much higher catalytic activity than the conventional crystalline forms of the metal.
Chemistry World May 2, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Chemists Arrive at the Island of Stability Despite predictions of exotic properties, 'superheavy' element 112 behaves like one of the family, say radiochemists in Switzerland.
Chemistry World May 2, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Ionic Liquids' Etch-A-Sketch Surprise UK chemists have discovered how to draw and erase pictures on the surfaces of ionic liquids.
Chemistry World May 2, 2007 Michael Gross	Protein Printboard Chemists in the Netherlands have created nanoscale structures that can immobilize proteins with exquisite control over specificity, strength and orientation.
Chemistry World May 1, 2007 Jessica Ebert	Pocket-sized PCR Machine Scientists in the U.S. report being one step closer to designing a miniaturized, portable PCR machine that could be used for applications such as point-of-care diagnostics.
Chemistry World May 2007 Lisa Melton	Chinese Medicine in Western Packaging The past decade has seen a global awakening to the truly curative powers of many ancient medicines, from black bear bile to the Asian plant Epimedium.
Chemistry World May 2007 Derek Lowe	In the Pipeline After months of bleak news about faltering pipelines and redundancies, it's time to find reasons to be cheerful about the drug industry.
Chemistry World May 2007 Philip Ball	The Crucible Reflections on the long-running debate about how colloids stick together.
Chemistry World May 2007 Dylan Stiles	Bench Monkey One has to wonder if Pauling, Sacks and Woodward would have ended up like they did if it were not for the very early hands-on experience they got with chemistry. Today's chemistry sets may be safer, but they're also a lot more boring.
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