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New screening technique yields elusive compounds to block immune-regulating enzyme

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found the first chemical compounds that act to block an enzyme that has been linked to inflammatory conditions such as asthma and arthritis, as well as some ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot off the press: Nanoscale Gutenberg-style printing

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gutenberg developed the principles of modern book printing, books became available to the masses. Hoping to bring technology capable of mass production to the nanometer scale, Udo Bach ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Synthetic biology: German researchers develop novel kind of fluorescent protein

Since the 1990s a green fluorescent protein known as GFP has been used in research labs worldwide. Protein designers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen have now taken it a step further: They have managed to incorporate a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sniffer dog on a chip: Highly sensitive TNT detection with nanowires

(PhysOrg.com) -- To thwart possible terrorist attacks and to detect contamination on sites of former military installations, researchers have been concentrating their efforts in recent years on methods for ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0