For nature and chemists alike, making atmospheric nitrogen available for the formation of more complex nitrogen compounds is both essential and difficult. In the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Paul C ...
Apr 05, 2013
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Owing to the huge array of applications, catalysis has long been dubbed as one of the most significant areas of process and synthetic chemistry. In fact, the vast majority of all chemical industrial products ...
Apr 04, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Taking their inspiration from Nature, scientists at the University of New South Wales have developed a new method for carrying out chemical reduction – an industrial process used to produce ...
Mar 25, 2013
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Early detection is vital for the effective treatment of cancer. In many cases, tell-tale biomarkers are present in the bloodstream long before outward symptoms become apparent. Early-stage cancers, for example, ...
Mar 08, 2013
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Radioactive caesium 137 has a half-life of 30.17 years, and its accumulation in organisms in exposed regions, such as around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, amplifies the hazard it poses. A new material reported by researchers ...
Mar 05, 2013
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a common technique used to amplify, or copy, pieces of DNA. Amplified DNA is then used in genetic analyses for everything from medicine to forensics. In plant research, PCR is a vital ...
Jan 03, 2013
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A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture and transform it into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals.
Dec 06, 2012
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Need some blood work done? There might soon be an app for that.
Nov 29, 2012
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The Biofactory, a leading innovator in incubating biomedical and life sciences related technologies, introduced today its ColoQuik line of label-free kits for the rapid colorimetric detection of protein-DNA interactions in ...
Nov 14, 2012
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Researchers at ETH Zurich developed a new synthesis procedure for a catalyst. This procedure may be used for the large-scale production of, for instance, plastics from renewable resources in an environmentally ...
Nov 06, 2012
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Paper is one of the surfaces most commonly tested for fingerprints in forensics. Unfortunately, it is particularly difficult to make fingerprints on paper visible. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Israel ...
Nov 05, 2012
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Texas Biomedical Research Institute scientists in San Antonio have developed a faster, less expensive route to screen suitable tests for bioterror threats and accelerate the application of countermeasures.
Nov 05, 2012
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Molecules with potent bioactivity alone are not suitable for new medicines. They must behave well inside the body, being easily absorbed, yet metabolically stable, once circulating through the blood stream. ...
Oct 05, 2012
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A team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island has developed an advanced blood-testing technology that incorporates a smartphone application, a hand-held biosensor and a credit card-sized cartridge to ...
Sep 06, 2012
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Natto, the Japanese breakfast dish of fermented soybeans, has a smell likened to sweaty feet but researchers have come up with an unlikely way of making it less whiffy—using bacteria from Chinese dust clouds.
Sep 04, 2012
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