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Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks offer rapid detection of nerve agents
Nerve agents are highly toxic chemical warfare agents that inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the nervous system, causing severe symptoms such as seizures and respiratory failure. Timely detection of these agents is crucial ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Micro metal-movers: Biochemists are one step closer to better cancer treatments
By unraveling the complex choreography of cellular machinery, Michigan State University researchers are helping identify the next generation of drug targets and cancer therapies.
Biochemistry
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Machine learning enables customized plastics that could reduce environmental impact
About 100 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the world's most commonly used plastics, are produced annually, using more than 15 times the energy needed to power New York City for a year and adding ...
Polymers
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Machine learning framework accelerates theoretical design of nonlinear optical materials
A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made strides in the theoretical design of nonlinear optical (NLO) materials by leveraging machine learning ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Carbon catalyst uses airborne oxygen to boost green hydrogen peroxide production
Hydrogen peroxide is one of the world's top 100 industrial chemicals with a wide range of applications in the chemical, medical, and semiconductor industries. Currently, hydrogen peroxide is mainly produced through the anthraquinone ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Eco-friendly method converts methane to ethanol with 80% selectivity
In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant milestone in low-carbon chemical conversion. In their recent publication in Nature, the team has discovered ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Sewage sludge microbiota can help clean up toxic tetrachloroethene pollution
A pair of environmental engineers at the National University of Singapore has found that many bacteria in common sewer water are able to detoxify tetrachloroethene. In their study published in the journal ACS ES&T Engineering, ...
Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping to explain unusual refolding behavior
Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions. This folding process occasionally goes awry, resulting in misfolded proteins that, if not corrected, ...
Biochemistry
Mar 14, 2025
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Color-changing fluorescent dyes enable precise temperature measurements within living cells
Temperature is a critical variable that influences countless biological processes at the cellular level. However, precisely measuring temperatures within living cells remains challenging. Conventional temperature measurement ...
Biochemistry
Mar 14, 2025
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Artificial photosynthesis: Chemists develop dye stack that mimics plant energy conversion
With artificial photosynthesis, mankind could utilize solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg and Seoul have taken this one step further: They have synthesized a stack of dyes that ...
Biochemistry
Mar 14, 2025
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Pressure engineering reveals organic–inorganic interaction sites in hybrid perovskites
A Jilin University team has reported a novel strategy using pressure engineering to identify the organic–inorganic interaction sites in non-hydrogen-bonded hybrid metal perovskites. This approach offers valuable guidance ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2025
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Synbiotic chocolate infused with pre- and probiotics could have potential health benefits
Many people will soon load up Easter baskets with chocolate candy for children and adults to enjoy. On its own, dark chocolate has health benefits, such as antioxidants that neutralize damaging free radicals. And a report ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2025
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Zinc(II)-enhanced probe offers quick detection of synthetic cannabinoids
Synthetic cannabinoids, a class of new psychoactive substances, bind to cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 much more strongly than tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), raising public health concerns due to their ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2025
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Molecular probe strategy enhances specific detection of psychoactive α-methyltryptamine
Tryptamine psychoactive substances, such as α-methyltryptamine (AMT), are monoamine alkaloids characterized by an indole ring structure. Rapid, highly sensitive, and specific identification of trace amounts of AMT is crucial ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2025
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Electrochemical properties of biomolecular condensates could help in development of cancer or ALS treatments
Much of cell behavior is governed by the actions of biomolecular condensates: building block molecules that glom together and scatter apart as needed. Biomolecular condensates constantly shift their phase, sometimes becoming ...
Biochemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Automated method increases the efficiency of bioactive natural product discovery
From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous applications, such as medicine and pesticides. There are tens of thousands of untapped natural products, but ...
Biochemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Pressurized electrolyzer achieves high-current NH₃ synthesis from nitrogen oxide
Electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) offers a promising route for sustainable ammonia (NH3) synthesis and for removing NO pollutants. However, achieving NH3 production from NO with ampere-level current ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Supramolecular organic framework achieves high-efficiency iodine capture from seawater
Iodine is a crucial element in various industries, but it is one of the least abundant nonmetallic elements on Earth. Although seawater holds around 70% of the world's iodine reserves, its low concentrations—approximately ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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How do researchers determine how toxic a chemical is? A toxicologist explains alternatives to animal testing
A vast number of chemicals are registered for production and use around the world. But only a portion have been thoroughly evaluated for their toxicity due to time, cost, ethical concerns and regulatory limitations.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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Real-time tracking reveals aromaticity-driven molecular shape changes
Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how excited-state aromaticity emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar structure in a few picoseconds.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 12, 2025
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