News tagged with reaction pathway

Planned coincidence: Antibody-based search for new chemical reactions

(Phys.org) -- Many discoveries are made by chance, but it is also possible to help it along: The chance of finding something interesting increases when the number of experiments rises. French researchers have ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel molecules to fight cancer resistance

A French-Italian team headed by researchers from CNRS and Inserm has discovered a new family of compounds that could make it possible to treat numerous cancers, particularly brain tumors and skin cancers. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

MSU chemists become the first to solve an 84-year-old theory

The same principle that causes figure skaters to spin faster as they draw their arms into their bodies has now been used by Michigan State University researchers to understand how molecules move energy around following the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Decades-old conclusion about energy-making pathway of cyanobacteria is corrected

A generally accepted 44-year-old assumption about how certain kinds of bacteria make energy and synthesize cell materials has been shown to be incorrect by a team of scientists led by Donald Bryant, the Ernest ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Biologists learn how plants synthesize their growth hormone auxin

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in unraveling, for the first time, the complete chain of biochemical reactions that controls the synthesis of auxin, the hormone that regulates nearly all ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swiss researchers clarify reaction pathway to fabricate graphene-like materials

Graphene is a promising material for tomorrow’s nanoelectronics devices. Precise and upscaleable methods to fabricate graphene and derived materials with desired electronic properties are however still ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Synthetic enzymes could help ID proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a rare metal that's not utilized by nature, Rice University chemists have created a synthetic enzyme that could help unlock the identities of thousands of difficult-to-study proteins, including many ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To starve a tumor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the 'Warburg effect' after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team develops new weapon to fight disease-causing bacteria, malaria

Researchers report that they have discovered - and now know how to exploit - an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to survive. The research ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fine-tuning an anti-cancer drug

Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. New hopes were raised a few years ago with the discovery that the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells could be thwarted by blocking the action ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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