November 2005

Vol 2, no.11

Chemistry World Letters, November 2005

Chemistry World Reviews, November 2005

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November 2005

News and analysis

20 September 2005

Embattled UK contract research organisation Huntingdon Life Sciences still plans to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange despite 'unprecedented' delay.

Legislation approved by the European Parliament offers incentives for the development of much needed child-specific medicines in Europe.

19 September 2005

The pharmaceutical industry has come in for severe criticism over its role in clinical research sponsorship.

28 September 2005

Pesticide testing on children and pregnant women who would not otherwise be exposed to pesticides should be banned.

23 September 2005

Ministers are being misled over pesticide health risks, according to a government-commissioned report.

20 September 2005

Italian researchers have used x-ray fluorescence and fibre optic spectroscopy to uncover the techniques used by renaissance ceramics artist Maestro Giorgio Andreoli.

05 October 2005

UK researchers are creating a definitive road map of the internal structure of porous supports for catalysts.

29 September 2005

Extreme close ups of salt and pepper have won the Visions of Science award.

21 September 2005

A chemist and a biochemist are two of the 25 recipients of the 2005 MacArthur grants worth $500 000 (�276 000) to further their 'exceptional' work.

22 September 2005

A leading nutritionist has questioned the wisdom of a chemical company's plans to develop milkshakes tailored to an individual's nutritional requirements.

26 September 2005

Unstable elemental composition, seasonal dampness and wooden display cabinets are responsible for the disintegration of historical glass.

15 September 2005

The Grid - a global network of research computing resources - has been used for the first time to calculate the free energy of the binding of peptides to a protein domain.

Industry news

Short items

Chemical Science

30 September 2005

Coral reefs can tolerate rising and falling ocean pH levels, but are still in danger from increasing ocean acidity, say marine scientists.

03 October 2005

The volcanic gas carbonyl sulfide (COS) might have triggered a key step in the origin of life by chemically activating amino acids.

19 September 2005

US researchers have raised the possibility of scaling up quantum dot production by developing a cut-price method of synthesis.

04 October 2005

Anthrax toxins can be disabled with small, simple molecules, scientists in the US claim.

12 October 2005

Acceleration of the spontaneous replication of RNA adds evidence to support the RNA-world theory of prebiotic evolution.

22 October 2005

A radical new approach is proposed to address the electron correlation problem.

21 September 2005

Genetically modified potatoes can produce greater amounts of toxins after exposure to blights and viruses, say UK researchers.

03 October 2005

US chemists and biologists have identified the main chemical constituents of a key signalling pheromone used by sea lampreys.

10 October 2005

Molecularly imprinted polymers containing iodine have been used to trap polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from river water for optical sensing.

14 October 2005

Japanese researchers have discovered that the chirality of one molecule can be sensed from a change in shape of another.

13 October 2005

US researchers have produced designer silk fibres with tuneable properties using an ionic liquid solution.

18 October 2005

European researchers have shown that nano-sized particles can be used to carry drugs and release them when they sense the presence of glucose.

24 October 2005

US scientists have developed an efficient method for fabricating freely suspended nanomembranes containing novel organized arrays of nanostructures.

29 September 2005

Chemists have used crystallographic analysis to identify a group of molecules they say could provide novel asthma drugs.

06 October 2005

Evidence backing a controversial sulfur-rich model of the Earth's oceans 1.8 billion years ago has been uncovered in molecular fossils.

16 September 2005

US chemists have used the propellant in car air bags to create some of the first stable uranium nitrides.

12 October 2005

Live bacteria coated with gold nanoparticles create a highly sensitive bio-electronic device that responds to changes in humidity.

21 October 2005

A new stronger bone grafting cement has been made and its setting kinetics studied by X-ray diffraction.

20 October 2005

Alan Howard and Nezar Khdary from the University of Southampton have modified nano-sized silica particles for the extraction of metals from aqueous solutions.

28 October 2005

A novel microsystem capable of detecting very low concentrations of pathogenic bacteria has been developed by scientists in California.

18 October 2005

New microspheres offer a more stable solid support for fluorescence detection in biomolecule screening.

19 October 2005

A one step self-desymmetrising reaction forms complex molecules from simple substrates.

11 October 2005

The relative orientations of carboxyl linkage groups in banana-shaped mesogens have a stronger than expected effect on the phase behaviour of the material.

28 October 2005

A new peptide that may be able to reverse the formation of amyloid fibrils in the brain could be the key to a cure for Alzheimer's.

21 October 2005

Japanese chemists have developed a new transition metal catalysed reaction for the silicon substitution of C-H bonds by difluorosilanes in aromatic heterocycles.

20 October 2005

Scientists have prepared a new cobalt-based single molecule magnet that shows unusual magnetic behaviour at low temperature.