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Chemistry World August 2011 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball wonders to what extent molecular structures are metaphorical and philosophical.  |
Chemistry World February 28, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Reactions on DNA origami watched with AFM Chemists in Denmark have for the first time imaged chemical reactions on a DNA origami scaffold so that they can precisely attach single molecules, involving atomic force microscopy.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Volcanoes Reveal the Secret of the Origin of Life Life began with a chemical reaction under the sea over four billion years ago. That is the claim of a German scientist whose team has recreated a crucial part of the reaction, synthesizing all the necessary ingredients for a living organism.  |
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones.  |
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Andy Merritt |
Chemical biology comes of age Historically strongest in the US, chemical biology has become increasingly important worldwide, but for many years researchers at the chemistry -- biology interface have struggled to establish their discipline  |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible.  |
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space.  |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Simon Poulton |
The Earth as a cradle for life This enjoyable book by Stacey and Hodgkinson takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, to the modern world.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
A Chemist's Thoughts on Computational Power and the Future of 'The Chemical Web' Interview with Steven Bachrach, a chemist with a flare for physics.  |
Chemistry World January 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Does chemical space limit a chemists' creativity?  |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain.  |
Chemistry World December 14, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Artificial intelligence for quantum chemistry Quantum chemical approximations don't always need to start from scratch, says an international team of researchers. Algorithms can now be used to predict the atomisation energy of huge numbers of molecules  |
Chemistry World June 25, 2012 |
Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem.  |
Chemistry World June 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Chemical speed-dating even faster Researchers in the US have adapted a DNA amplification technique to develop a simpler way to rapidly screen chemical reactions.  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2012 Paul Nancarrow |
A fresh approach Morton Denn, author of Chemical Engineering: An Introduction, has successfully written a modern and concise book on this topic.  |
| Reactive Reports |
Star Picks Dihydrogen Monoxide... A chemical jigsaw puzzle... Chemical Heritage Foundation...  |
Chemistry World October 11, 2012 Patrick Walter |
Slump in confidence hits EU chemical industry EU chemical production has stalled again after staging a brief recovery after the global economic crisis hit. Chemical production has fallen by 2.4% in the first seven months of this year, compared with the same time period last year.  |
Reactive Reports September 2007 David Bradley |
Insecticidal Synthesis The efforts of 40 PhD chemistry students and many others have found a way to construct azadirachtin -- a natural insecticide from the neem tree -- in a total synthesis of 64 individual chemical reaction steps.  |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
What is chemistry? This book is designed to tell the average person all about chemistry, and in a way they can understand.  |
Chemistry World July 1, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical security efforts spread The EU and the US are simultaneously taking action in a bid to secure chemical facilities and prevent their misuse by terrorists.  |
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Jim Al-Khalili |
Change: the only constant Today, there is much interest in a wide range of biological phenomena that may have a quantum origin, from our sense of smell to photosynthesis and mutations in DNA.  |
Chemistry World February 16, 2010 Sean Milmo |
New scheme to boost bio-based chemistry The European Commission has launched an initiative to help chemical companies switch to renewable feedstocks and energy sources.  |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: The crucible If DNA polymerisation is reversible, why don't we end up with some static equilibrium?  |
Chemistry World May 2012 |
Help or harm? Malcolm Dando asks whether we are sufficiently aware of the potential for chemistry to be misused and what may result if we are not  |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Agriculture's call for chemistry Decades of underinvestment in agricultural research have taken their toll but now is the time to bring in young scientists to find new ways to feed the world.  |
Chemistry World January 3, 2013 Laura Howes |
Hunted becomes the hunter in DNA ecosystem Scientists in Japan have modelled a biological ecosystem containing a predator and a prey using nothing more than short pieces of DNA. The 'striking' similarity between the molecular system and biological ecosystems suggests a new use for these biochemical oscillators.  |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale.  |
Chemistry World September 11, 2006 |
Conference Blog From the American Chemical Society's fall conference: Dance your way to an A... Play for today... Welcome to San Francisco... Bio-barcodes indicate cancer protein... etc.  |
Chemistry World November 2011 Graeme Armstrong |
Good Chemistry We must improve the chemistry between industry and society.  |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball  |
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 Nina Notman |
A celebration of chemistry Simon Cotton's latest book, Every Molecule Tells a Story, is -- in his own words -- 'a celebration of molecules and of chemistry' aimed at school and university students, and their teachers.  |
Reactive Reports November 2005 David Bradley |
Peter Murray-Rust An interview with the scientific software developer, originally a crystallographer with a DPhil from Oxford, on how he is now helping to establish novel software and Web technologies for chemists and other scientists underpinned by the concept of open source.  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations.  |
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Mike Pitts |
Corporate social responsibility Sustainability in the Chemical Industry by Eric Johnson, is a study of the corporate social responsibility approaches used by the world's largest chemical companies (29 of them).  |
Chemistry World October 15, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Optical conveyor belt gathers up molecules Researchers in Germany have developed a novel way to 'round up' biological molecules that are freely suspended in solution and trap them in a confined space using nothing more than light.  |
Chemistry World January 2009 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Sustainable connection The interface between chemistry and engineering is more important than ever.  |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined.  |
Chemistry World February 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Go Canada What do we know about the chemical industry in Canada?  |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
Cultivating collaboration A new network aims to bring the power of interdisciplinary innovation to bear on global food issues.  |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King |
Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows.  |
Chemistry World July 12, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Chemistry will underpin economic growth, say industry leaders A cross-industry collaboration is trying to unite the UK chemicals sector, building a robust industry landscape founded on basic chemical feedstock manufacturing supporting innovation across all the chemical-using industries.  |
Chemistry World April 9, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
European project to boost industry energy efficiency The European Chemical Industry Council has launched a two-year, Europe-wide project to help chemical companies improve their energy efficiency.  |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success  |
Chemistry World April 1, 2010 Hepeng Jia |
China Updates Chemical Legislation After a seven-year delay, China has introduced an updated version of its chemical registration and evaluation rules, bringing the country in line with chemical regulation efforts in other parts of the world.  |
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology.  |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
Rising interest in compound bank David Fox argues for the creation of a centralized repository for small molecules to harness research efforts in drug discovery  |
Chemistry World December 1, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
US chemical industry wary of facilities danger list The US chemical industry is concerned about the potential impact of a report, released by a liberal think tank on 19 November, which lists the nation's 101 most dangerous chemical manufacturing and water treatment plants  |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question...  |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic.  |