News tagged with reagents
Fresh Pot of Tea Strikes Anticancer Gold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More i ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2009 |
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A water splitter with a double role
(PhysOrg.com) -- There is a lot of hope invested in hydrogen, but it also presents some problems. It is energy-rich, clean and, as a constituent of water, of almost unlimited availability. However, so far ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Fingerprints tell all: Progress in fingerprint analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Safer way to make diazomethane developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diazomethane is a toxic, explosive reagent prepared as needed in laboratories, where it is commonly used in cyclopropanation, but its explosive nature prevents it being used widely on an industrial ...
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to produce micrometer-wide discs and elongated rods precisely ...
May 25, 2009 |
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New method makes culture of complex tissue possible in any lab
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Biodesign researchers to develop new reagent pipeline for molecular medicine
An ongoing Arizona State University effort to develop a revolutionary class of reagents that holds great promise for the future of medicine has received a major boost with a three-year, $4 million award from ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Feasible use of methane as a raw material
A team of EU-funded researchers has moved one step closer to using methane as a raw material.
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response
(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Economizing chemistry, atom by atom
In chemistry, downsizing can have positive attributes. Reducing the number of steps and reagents in synthetic reactions, for example, enables chemists to boost their productivity while reducing their environmental ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Researchers devise a fast and sensitive way to detect ricin
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Turbo-packed RNA: Turbo reagent allows precise synthesis of tRNA nucleosides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biologically important molecule that is very similar to DNA, the blueprint of life. Naturally occurring RNAs, such as transfer RNA (tRNA), contain modified building ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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A powerful new technology to identify HIV inhibitors
Providing long-term HIV treatment for over 33 million infected individuals worldwide requires the continuous development of new HIV therapies. Virologists at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have developed a cell-based assay ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Engineering team invents lab-on-a-chip for fast, inexpensive blood tests
While most blood tests require shipping a vial of blood to a laboratory for analysis and waiting several days for the results, a new device invented by a team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island uses ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Research team gives drug dropouts a second chance
(Phys.org) -- A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland has designed a molecular container that can hold drug molecules and increase their solubility, in one case up to nearly ...
May 07, 2012 |
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