News tagged with chemical synthesis
Form and function in enzyme activity
Many industrial chemistry applications, such as drug or biofuel synthesis, require large energy inputs and often produce toxic pollutants. But chemistry and chemical biology professor Mary Jo Ondrechen said ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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The computer knows its chemistry
New software developed by ETH Zurich researchers has learned important rules of chemistry. The scientists can use it to simulate the chemical synthesis of molecules in a computer and develop completely new ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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New mathematical model explains how hosts survive parasite attacks
In nature, how do host species survive parasite attacks? This has not been well understood, until now. A new mathematical model shows that when a host and its parasite each have multiple traits governing their ...
Mar 04, 2012 |
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Biology-oriented synthesis (BIOS) - cancer drugs based on natural models
The search for new drug candidates for cancer treatment is laborious and time-consuming. Only a fraction of the promising chemical compounds identified completes the transition to the market. Herbert Waldmann ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Breakthrough in designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts for fuel cells
University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Feb 23, 2012 |
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New chemical reaction holds promise for drug development
A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has devised a new method for making complex molecules. The reaction they have come up with should enable chemists to synthesize new ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Work sheds new light on medicinal benefits of plants
Scientists from institutions around the nation and the world have collaborated to develop new resources poised to unlock yet another door in the hidden garden of medicinally important compounds found in plants.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Novel nanocrystals with advanced optical properties developed for use as luminescent biomarkers
Upconversion emission materials are ideal for bioimaging due to its effectiveness as contrast agents for the detection of cancer cells, more so when the background emission of non-cancerous tissues can be minimised. These ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Highly selective catalyst developed for ring-closing olefin metathesis
Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Taking a page from nature to build better nanomaterials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes nature cannot be improved upon. One example is in the synthesis of nanomaterials, which in the laboratory or factory generally requires toxic chemicals and extreme conditions of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Bionic bacteria may help fight disease and global warming
A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way for new synthetic drugs and new ways of manufacturing medicines and biofuels, ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Newfound hijacked proteins linked to salmonella virulence
Scientists have discovered that bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella have a sneaky way of making minor alterations to their genes to boost their chances for infection.
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Scientists find easier, cheaper way to make a sought-after chemical modification to drugs
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have devised a much easier technique for performing a chemical modification used widely in the synthesis of drugs and other products.
Aug 16, 2011 |
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New way of synthesizing organic chemicals mimics nature
Organic chemists have found a new way of synthesizing multiple complex organic molecules that until now have needed to be synthesized using time-consuming methods. The new strategy, which mimics natural biosynthesis methods, ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Probing the secrets of the ryegrasses
Loline alkaloids protect plants from attack by insects and have other interesting features that have yet to be studied in detail. Chemists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, have developed a method for ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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