MagPortal.com   Clustify - document clustering
 Home  |  Newsletter  |  My Articles  |  My Account  |  Help 
Similar Articles
Chemistry World
July 2, 2014
Tim Wogan
Miller's forgotten experiments point to primitive protein genesis Stanley Miller's experiments are still adding to our understanding of prebiotic Earth. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 12, 2015
Andy Extance
'Chemical search engine' backs alternative route to life A key class of biological molecules neglected in the search for life's chemical origins could have appeared spontaneously before organisms, UK scientists say. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 1, 2009
Hayley Birch
How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 17, 2014
Katia Moskvitch
Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 21, 2011
Russell Johnson
Jump starting prebiotic photochemistry Light activated reactions of organic molecules in fatty acid membranes offers a plausible method for energy transfer and storage in prebiotic systems, claim US scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 5, 2012
Phillip Broadwith
Chemical reactions in hot water Chinese and Japanese chemists have highlighted hot water's ability to promote unexpected reactions without any other reagents or catalysts. The work should expand our understanding of how to harness the physicochemical properties of water to potentially replace more complex reagents and catalysts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 25, 2014
James Urquhart
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 10, 2015
Kira Welter
Peptide glue may have held first protocell components together Electrostatic interactions induced by short, positively charged, hydrophobic peptides are all it takes to attach RNA to vesicle membranes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 8, 2010
Lewis Brindley
Molecular midwives helped birth of DNA 'Molecular midwives' - are compounds that played a crucial role in combining small nucleotide fragments into the first genetic polymeric material. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 8, 2008
Mark Peplow
Meteorite Source for Life's Handedness Scientists have long speculated that life's preference for left-handed amino acids may have been triggered by compounds brought to Earth by meteorites. Now they've shown exactly how two crucial steps in this process could happen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 19, 2010
Simon Hadlington
New 'click' reaction to modify proteins Chemists in the US have discovered a new way to attach small molecules to proteins and peptides under mild, aqueous reaction conditions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 14, 2009
James Urquhart
New route to amino acids US scientists have found a new way of making a class of non-natural amino acids that are widely used as components of pharmaceuticals and chiral catalysts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 16, 2008
Hayley Birch
Miller's legacy: new clues to origins of life Scientists have re-examined dried residues in 50-year-old vials from classic 'primordial soup' experiments to glean new information about how life originated on Earth. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 15, 2012
Melissae Fellet
Synthesis by mass spectrometry Chemists have used mass spectrometry, commonly used to analyze molecules, to synthesize them on the microscale. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2, 2011
Phillip Broadwith
Protein synthesis hijacked to turn out cyclic peptides Japanese researchers have developed a way of reprogramming the genetic code and using bacteria to make and screen huge libraries of cyclic peptides using unnatural amino acids. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2008
Column: In the pipeline Problems develop when there are too few workhorse reactions, which may well generate compounds that are too similar to each other. Are we at that stage now? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 29, 2012
Simon Hadlington
Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 16, 2011
Forming the First Sugars with Formose Reactions Hydrothermal synthesis could provide greener synthesis methods as well as information about the origin of life. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 20, 2015
Katrina Kramer
Taking the lead on drug discovery Researchers from the UK have developed a straightforward strategy for making compounds that have the potential to become clinical drugs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
David Bradley
Multichannel Microchemical Factory The microchemical factory approach offers a safer and scaleable approach to producing materials from the very smallest quantities to the largest bulk. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 24, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Carbon can't but tin can US chemists have discovered that distannynes - tin-based analogues of acetylenes - can react reversibly with ethene to make cyclic complexes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 29, 2015
Derek Lowe
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 9, 2011
James Mitchell Crow
High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2, 2007
Philip Ball
Giving Life a Hand Why are proteins left-handed and nucleic acids right-handed? Once offered only a few sketchy theories, scientists have found more alternatives for creating homochirality. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 22, 2007
Michael Gross
Eat Isotopes to Live Longer Food containing heavy isotopes of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen could slow down the aging process. That's the claim of a biochemist who suggests that seeding key biological molecules with deuterium or carbon-13 could drastically reduce oxidative damage or even avert it altogether. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 27, 2009
Hayley Birch
More data from mixtures via NMR Finnish scientists have developed a new technique for separating out the NMR spectra of compounds in a mixture. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 16, 2014
Patrick Walter
Computer simulations point to formamide as prebiotic intermediate in 'Miller' mixtures Formamide may have played a key role in the genesis of life mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 3, 2012
Simon Hadlington
One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 15, 2011
Mary Badcock
Building up a natural product toolkit US scientists have come up with a method that makes it easier to extract compounds that are difficult to isolate from crude natural product mixtures. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 12, 2010
Mike Brown
Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 17, 2013
Eleanor Merritt
Switching chirality in amino acids An international team of scientists has developed a purely chemical approach to interconvert L- and D-amino acids. This method could rival enzymatic routes used in industry, and enable cheaper production of some pharmaceuticals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 7, 2014
Michael Gross
Bringing chemical synthesis to the masses The promise of a novel approach to building chemical libraries, which only requires simple building blocks in water, without any additional reagents or sample preparation, is inspired by nature. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 23, 2015
Derek Lowe
Missing the target There are enzymes that no mustard has ever cut, to steal a phrase from science fiction author James Blish. Phosphatases, the flip side of kinase activity, are a perfect example. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 24, 2006
Richard Van Noorden
Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 8, 2008
Hayley Birch
Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 12, 2015
Matthew Gunther
Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 29, 2015
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 13, 2011
Phillip Broadwith
Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 11, 2009
James Urquhart
Enzyme-free assembly of DNA-like molecules US scientists have developed a simple peptide nucleic acid system that self-assembles and adapts to new instructions without enzymes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 11, 2013
Philip Ball
A (chemical) potential theory of life's origin This theory says that life arose at hydrothermal vents, not merely because these provide heat and the ingredients for making complex organics but because they create sustained gradients of ion concentration. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 20, 2014
David Bradley
Molecular librarians create druglike collections Finding biologically active small molecules with pharmaceutical potential is a bittersweet process. Now, a new approach to building libraries of diverse alkaloid-type structures has been developed by US chemists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 20, 2008
Spying on Self-Assembly Proteins attaching to gold nanoparticles don't mill around randomly, but organise into clusters, according to UK scientists who say they have for the first time spied in detail peptides assembling on a surface. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2009
Derek Lowe
Column: In the pipeline The author considers what makes a good looking drug molecule - and how beauty is in the eye of the beholder mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 9, 2006
Michael Gross
Miniature Microbicides Researchers have created miniature antimicrobial peptides that contain only four (as opposed to the usual 12-50) amino acid residues combined with a fatty acid. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 22, 2014
Derek Lowe
Death of a reagent Anyone who's been practicing organic chemistry for a while can think back to reactions and reagents that were once in far wider use than they are today. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
Erin Biba
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 10, 2014
Big pharma opens up abandoned drugs Sixty eight stalled pharmaceutical compounds are being made available for academic research through the UK Medical Research Council. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 30, 2007
Lewis Brindley
Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge. mark for My Articles similar articles