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Drugs used to overcome cancer may also combat antibiotic resistance: McMaster researchers

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 16, 2021 Comments Off

Drugs used to overcome cancer may also combat antibiotic resistance: McMaster researchers – The pharmaceutical sector has made a big investment in targeting kinases proteins, so there are a lot of compounds and drugs out there that, although they were …

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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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Making fluorine reactions stick

Posted by David Bradley on May 10, 2020 Comments Off

Fluorine in organic chemistry is an important topic across the synthetic pharmaceutical, agrochemical and materials areas because switching out hydrogen atoms selectivity for this element allows chemists to tune the reactivity of specific groups within a given molecule. Now, chemists …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on May 4, 2020 Comments Off

Rutgers Offers Hope in New Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries – Scientists at the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University and Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have developed a chemically synthesized siRNA molecule that allows regeneration of nerve cells. …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 14, 2020 Comments Off

Microrockets aim at cancer diagnostics – Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have made self-propelled microtube rockets that can find and capture cancer cells from blood samples. Nanomechanical investigations show how green tea can repair cancer cells – …

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More chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 9, 2020 Comments Off

Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories – Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to determine how the radioactive elements …

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