News tagged with chemical shift

New 'genome mining' technique streamlines discovery from nature

A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What drugs do to the brain

Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading neuroscientist will claim this week.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

HARPS-N instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Noninvasive and accurate: Absolute temperature mapping for biomedical applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Germany and the US have developed a new approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry using encaged hyperpolarized xenon as a temperature sensor. The method allows ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemists create protein structure database

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein, thanks to recently published work led by Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell's Todd ...

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0