June 2005

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June 2005

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The John Innes Centre (JIC) has been forced to instigate a major restructuring programme as funds from agrochemical companies and the European Commission fall despite rising costs....

Finnish Biotech company Finnzymes won the ?10 000 (�6 740) BioFinland prize at last month's BioFinland 05 congress in Helsinki, Finland. The award was presented by the speaker of t...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has released the first version of its long-awaited International Chemical Identifier

EU scientists have put forward a wish list of 23 large-scale research infrastructures that will be needed in the coming decade and could be developed over the course of the seventh...

A cure for West Nile Virus (WNV) has come a step closer with the development of a treatment for the infection in mice and a trial vaccine for humans. Researchers in the US are look...

Management of knowledge in terms of education, research and innovation will be crucial to how Europe competes on the world stage, according to Janez Potocnik, European commissioner...

UK hospital trusts are better prepared to deal with chemical incidents than they were five years ago but the design of protective suits and tents still needs work, claim researcher...

The University of Durham, UK, has launched an integrated biological chemistry centre to develop interdisciplinary research in biological chemistry and bioengineering.

A drug offering hope to patients with Gleevec-resistant chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) has passed Phase I clinical trials with flying colours, claim researchers, and has just ente...

Developing countries, with limited resources and relatively low energy requirements, are ideally placed to develop and benefit from renewable energy, says a leading energy research...

Chemistry research has received a significant boost through grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) aimed at funding key areas at risk but import...

Chemical Science

European researchers have developed fast enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays that will help food producers and consumer protection agencies identify traces of peanuts and hazelnuts ...

A proteomics study of tears of patients afflicted with the chronic eye disease blepharitis has shed light on the pathogenesis of the disease.

An eggy whiff could be the scent of things to come in operating theatres if the promise of recent research is realised. US researchers have found that hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas ca...

By taking advantage of nanoshells' optical properties, researchers from Rice University, Houston, US, have developed a method to simultaneously image and kill cancer cells

Chemists in France have devised a method to kill bacteria in flowing air in an attempt to combat diseases like SARS in high-risk areas such as hospitals and commercial aircraft.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that targets the growth of new blood vessels has been developed by scientists in the Netherlands.

Food chemists in the US - a nation with a term for the hard bits of popcorn that don't go pop - have discovered a way to maximise corn's pop-ability.

The aggregations of tangled nerves in patients with neurodegenerative disease could be good rather than bad news, argue scientists in the US. This challenges the conventional wis...

A host of reports from different laboratories has signalled renewed interest in self-assembling molecular nanotubes.

Skiers' UV exposure has been measured on the slopes with a device developed in New Zealand that can also monitor children's UV exposure levels.

Researchers in New Zealand have found a radical way to help develop anti-cancer drugs.

A team of chemists in Israel has shed light on metathesis reactions involving alkynes, by accidentally synthesising a probable catalytic intermediate. This compound could now form ...

Do molecules have memories? In a small number of reactions, it has appeared as though the achiral transition state can remember the chirality of the reactant, and thereby influence...

Hydrogen offers a sustainable energy carrier to replace fossil fuels, but storing the large volumes of H2 needed provides a serious challenge. Researchers in the US and Europe have...

A new technique to measure the compressibility of proteins accurately has been developed.

Easy access to a versatile group of furan compounds has been provided in a one-pot procedure by scientists in Germany.

New work adds weight to the 'protein only' hypothesis that proteins alone are the infectious agent in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), including BSE, CJD and scrap...

A new approach to investigating metals incorporated in proteins has been developed by chemists in France and Poland.

An innovative way to modify the physical properties of polymers has been discovered by scientists in the UK.

An electrical microsensor capable of detecting and quantifying traces of biological molecules has been developed by scientists in the US.

The removal of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from the atmosphere remains a mystery as reaction with iodine monoxide (IO) is ruled out by researchers from Leeds, UK.

In a bid to understand large crystal architectures, three rare ternary co-crystals have been made by chemists in the US.

A remarkably selective nano-capsule has been created by chemists from Japan. The nanocapsule has two cavitand molecules bound to silver ions to form the 'top' and 'bottom' parts an...

A likely interstellar molecule has been detected and analysed

A method to modify terminal epoxide groups and lengthen carbon chains has been developed. In traditional substitution reactions, anions formed at the end of the carbon chain can be...

Modifying an adsorbed extracellular matrix protein (ECM) on tissue engineered for use in patients can selectively change the nervous response of cells, say researchers from Notting...

Compounds with both positive and negative charges can be made in abundance thanks to a method developed by scientists in France.

Features

Photovoltaic cells are not widely used because of their high cost. Simon Hadlington explores some of the work under way to produce cheaper, more efficient cells

Julia Higgins serves on many high-level scientific bodies and was awarded a DBE in 2001 for her services to science. She talks to Karen Harries-Rees about her roles and plans

The periodic table is still expanding but there are probably not many elements left that can be synthesised. Dennis Rouvray investigates how much further we can go

It is time for nanotechnology to make it out of the research lab and into large scale production. Katharine Sanderson finds out some of the problems associated with this from compa...

Rob Lukens tells us about the instruments that changed the chemical world and the quest to find them

Regulars

Nuclear power needs to be among the options considered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The new Manchester interdisciplinary biocentre is a haven for life science researchers interested in the interface with physical sciences, explain Andrew Munro and Nigel Scrutton

What effect does 'pseudo science' have on science?

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Croatian chemical nomenclature is in no way singular or peculiar.

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