News tagged with reagents
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Microfluidics: Creating chaos
A quiet revolution is taking place in the fields of biology and chemistry. Microfluidic devices, which allow fluid manipulation in micro-scale channels, are slowly but surely finding their place on the lab ...
May 10, 2012 |
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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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New salts for chemical soups
Organozinc reagents are an important class of organometallic compounds with a wide range of applications. German chemists have developed a novel route for the synthesis of so-called organozinc pivalates in a stable powdered ...
Aug 29, 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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Membrane pockets that gain catalytic activity upon self-assembly shed light on biological enzymatic processes
Biological membranes play key roles in the body. They determine, for example, how molecules enter and exit cells, and the architecture of their lipid bilayer allows them to host enzymes and enhance their catalytic ...
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