News articles tagged with 'reaction'
Microreactors: Small scale chemistry could lead to big improvements for biodegradable polymers
— 1 Apr 2011 15:27 | ChemistryUsing a small block of aluminium with a tiny groove carved in it, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Polytechnic Institute…
Carnegie Mellon researchers electrify polymerisation
— 1 Apr 2011 14:48 | TechnologyScientists led by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski are using electricity from a battery to drive atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP), a widely used…
Small code change, big effect
— 28 Mar 2011 18:02 | ChemistryScientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method which enables researchers to label any protein of their choice with…
New method for studying molecule reactions a breakthrough in organic chemistry
— 11 Mar 2011 15:40 | ChemistryGood chemists are passive-aggressive - they manipulate molecules without actually touching them…
Iowa State, Ames Lab researcher hunts for green catalysts
— 8 Mar 2011 12:59 | ChemistryL. Keith Woo is searching for cleaner, greener chemical reactions. Woo, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory,…
Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories
— 3 Mar 2011 12:53 | EnvironmentUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could…
Heparin a key role player in allergy and inflammatory reactions
— 26 Feb 2011 17:36 | HealthHeparin plays a key role in allergic and inflammatory reactions driven by mast cells, scientists from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows in an international collaboration involving…
2 in 1: Multi-tasking protein provides new approaches for anti-tuberculosis drugs
— 16 Feb 2011 05:05 | HealthIn a paper published today in PNAS, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, reveal new insights into the workings of enzymes from a group…
X-rays show why van Gogh paintings lose their shine
— 15 Feb 2011 16:21 | ChemistryScientists have identified a complex chemical reaction responsible for the degradation of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and other artists of the late 19th century. This discovery…
A new mechanism for reversible proteasome inhibition
— 13 Dec 2010 16:16 | HealthWhat makes cancer cells so dangerous is that they grow in an unregulated way and proliferate much faster than other cells. The proteasome, a large protein complex, plays a key role…