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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on May 31, 2020 Comments Off

Team solves decades-old molecular mystery linked to blood clotting – Researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions – Chemists can …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 30, 2020 Comments Off

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Next-Generation Chemical Mapping on the Nanoscale – Berkeley Lab scientists at the Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale. These new maps will guide researchers …

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Slinn Pickings – chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 7, 2020 Comments Off

Zooming in on the weapons of Salmonella – Bacteria like salmonellae infect their host cells by needle-shaped extensions which they create in large numbers during an attack. A group of Vienna-based scientists headed by Thomas Marlovits employed recently developed methods …

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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 4, 2020 Comments Off

Novel nanosensor platform for direct detection of a cancer biomarker in blood – In a recent development, scientists in Spain have developed a rapid nanochannel-based immunoassay capable of the filtering and subsequent detection of proteins in whole blood without any …

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Latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 3, 2020 Comments Off

Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implications – An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy assessed the net greenhouse gas savings of bioethanol from sugarcane as compared to the use of fossil fuels. New growth inhibitors more effective in …

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10 chemical picks

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 27, 2020 Comments Off

Erlotinib effective and with fewer side-effects after first-line treatment – The targeted cancer drug erlotinib has comparable efficacy to chemotherapy, and is better tolerated, in hard-to-treat cases where a patient's cancer has progressed quickly after treatment with first-line therapy, the …

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