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Growing a microgarden
17 May 2013 Research
Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment
Plasmonic milk monitor collars spoilt dairy
7 May 2013 Research
Stained glass technology to stop you putting gone off milk in your tea
Europe to ban controversial pesticides
30 April 2013 News and Analysis
Two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids to be enforced in bid to boost bee health
Carving graphene snowflakes with gases
23 April 2013 Research
Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets
Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot
7 April 2013 Research
Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol
Beer filtration could add arsenic
7 April 2013 Research
German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix
More clues to Maya blue
5 April 2013 Research
Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?
Droplet printing assembles soft networks
4 April 2013 Research
New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery
Funding boost for PhDs
2 April 2013 News and Analysis
EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants
£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room
20 March 2013 News and Analysis
Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation's future
UK's research shortfall reduced
20 March 2013 News and Analysis
Cut in research capital reduced by additional commitments but more needed, campaign group warns
New definition for supramolecular chemistry
8 March 2013 Research
In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,
New publishing models test the water
21 February 2013 News and Analysis
Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models
UK-India projects launched
20 February 2013 News and Analysis
Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister's visit to India
Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered
12 February 2013 Research
Route from inorganic to organic mercury isolated
Soft robots take a leap forward
11 February 2013 Research
Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster
Prussian blue
30 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was 'bling'
Five green chemical feedstock projects launched
29 January 2013 News and Analysis
New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels
Paper crane to carbon electrode
29 January 2013 Research
Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique
Switchable catenane ready for data storage
25 January 2013 Research
A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory
Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?
24 January 2013 Research
Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets
Post-publication peer review blog launches
22 January 2013 News and Analysis
Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowd sourced
Nanotube fibre production in a spin
11 January 2013 Research
Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete
Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines
10 January 2013 News and Analysis
Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified
Rotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides
10 January 2013 Research
Bio-inspired molecular machine can piece together three amino acids
Antifreeze protein's watery dance
9 January 2013 Research
How the proteins that keep animals alive in -30°C temperatures do their job
Digging up ancient drug formulations
7 January 2013 Research
An analysis of a medicine discovered on a second century BC shipwreck has revealed that the active ingredients are still in use today
How do these edges glow
3 January 2013 Research
Two-dimensional crystals of tungsten disulfide show strong photoluminescence at the edges
Hunted becomes the hunter in DNA ecosystem
3 January 2013 Research
Scientists in Japan create a predator–prey simulation using nothing more than small pieces of DNA
New European universities ranking initiative
21 December 2012 News and Analysis
U-Multirank is intended to be more fair by taking into account a greater number of performance factors
DNA hydrogel has a long memory
21 December 2012 Research
Metamaterial collapses out of water and behaves like a liquid, but pop it back in water and up it springs just like before
Engineered enzyme performs cyclopropanation by carbene transfer
21 December 2012 Research
Directed evolution modifies enzyme to perform synthetically important reactions
Cutting edge chemistry in 2012
20 December 2012 Research
What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2012? Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year’s crop of chemical science papers
Home office to help student job seekers
19 December 2012 News and Analysis
Foreign PhD students will get a 12 month grace period to find a job after end of course
Spray and peel forensic sampling
7 December 2012 Research
Lift-off strippable coatings can help analyse surface residues
FOI exemptions for unpublished research
6 December 2012 News and Analysis
UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
Antimalarials should target female parasites
3 December 2012 Research
Study suggests that when it comes to malaria parasites, females are the weakest link
Smartphones as environmental sensors
28 November 2012 News and Analysis
New project will measure personal exposure to pollutants with GPS-enabled smartphones
M&S nano fears for recycled packaging
28 November 2012 News and Analysis
Ambitious recycling commitment by UK grocer could be threatened by fear of nanoinks
Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades
26 November 2012 Research
Protected metal complexes can team up with enzymes for multistep reactions
Imperial launches second phenome centre
15 November 2012 News and Analysis
New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments
Council to defend UK universities launched
9 November 2012 News and Analysis
The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy
No methane on Mars, says Curiosity
9 November 2012 News and Analysis
Rover takes first sniffs of the Martian atmosphere and doesn't find methane, a signal of possible life
Self-tying trefoil knot
8 November 2012 Research
UK scientists have stumbled across a molecule that ties itself up in knots, echoing the folding of proteins
Acrylamide levels in food still too high, EU says
6 November 2012 News and Analysis
Report finds that changes to cooking practices to tackle the presence of the carcinogen are slow to materialise
Printing out new catalysts
1 November 2012 Research
Inkjet printing has been used for high-throughput generation of metal oxide catalysts
Shining new light on the Ullmann reaction
1 November 2012 Research
Photoinduced C–N coupling provides more information on mechanistic pathways in widely used reaction
Algal biofuel's viability questioned
30 October 2012 News and Analysis
Large scale production of algal biofuels is currently unsustainable, says new report
No more tears tape
30 October 2012 Research
Quick release medical tape could reduce pain and damage in neonatal care
Funding worries in UK higher education
26 October 2012 News and Analysis
Think tank calculates that UK tuition fees reform might not save any money at all
Government adds £200 million to research partnership fund
12 October 2012 News and Analysis
Cash boost to fund designed to improve university-industry collaboration
New superconductors are both ordinary yet odd
4 October 2012 Research
Layered structures of two superconductors points to a different way of creating them
Here comes the science bit
2 October 2012 
Feature
Laura Howes investigates the science behind the advertising claims for skincare products
Tuning photonic crystals by blending brush polymers
28 September 2012 Research
Spectrum of photonic crystals made by combining different brush block copolymers
Superhydrophobic knife slices up water
28 September 2012 Research
Phenomenon could be harnessed to separate small samples in a reproducible manner
Liberal Democrats pledge support for UK science
25 September 2012 News and Analysis
Party pass science policy paper unanimously at its conference in Brighton
Battery boost for electric cars
18 September 2012 News and Analysis
UK energy storage R&D Centre announced
TNT for top guns
14 September 2012 Research
It sounds strange but carrying TNT could protect fighter planes from heat seeking missiles
Sponges to mop up marine methane
13 September 2012 Research
Superhydrophobic sponges could suck up ocean methane claim Chinese scientists
Carbon wire a double helix
10 September 2012 Research
Somewhere between a carbon nanotube and a molecular wire, a carbon double helix should sit, say computational chemists
£10 million open access boost
7 September 2012 News and Analysis
UK funding council's stance on open access to be supported with an extra £10 million investment from government
Beating shoe smells with crab shells
3 September 2012 Research
Treating leather with chitosan could help create odour-fighting shoes
Crystals through the looking glass
17 August 2012 Research
A new carbon material shows short range disorder but long range order – the opposite of quasicrystals
Printing stained glass
13 August 2012 Research
Nanodisks of gold and silver can create colour prints with a resolution of 100,000 dpi
Bapineuzunab dropped
9 August 2012 Business
Development for the Alzheimer's treatment stopped after clinical tests
Recovering chemical weapons
9 August 2012 News and Analysis
As stockpiles of chemical weapons are destroyed, the US looks to detecting and destroying buried munitions
Protein coat for gene therapy
8 August 2012 Research
A non-viral capsid has been converted to carry nucleic acids inside
Solar cell meets sunflower
8 August 2012 Research
Boosting solar cell performance using liquid crystal elastomers to mimic sunflowers and track the sun across the sky
European air pollution concerns
7 August 2012 News and Analysis
Emission limits still being exceeded by member states as scientists make further warnings of what's to come
Anti-mosquito paint trialled
3 August 2012 News and Analysis
Insecticide containing wall paint shown to clear infestations
25 years ago: Refuseniks
31 July 2012 Flashback
Scientists who applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union were refused exit visas and demoted
Calls to match skills to industry
24 July 2012 News and Analysis
Universities are not producing enough science graduates with the skills needed by UK industry, Lord's report claims
Silica coaxed into quasicrystal form
24 July 2012 Research
pH control suggests avenue for the controlled synthesis of other quasiperiodic systems
Redox chemistry behind dragonfly romance
19 July 2012 Research
The red colour that signifies male dragonflies’ sexual maturity is down to a simple reduction
BPA causes freaky fish flirting
18 July 2012 News and Analysis
Controversial chemical bisphenol A can cause sexual barriers to break down between fish species
£3.5 million for UK bioenergy research hub
18 July 2012 News and Analysis
A new research hub to accelerate the use of sustainable bioenergy announced
Research integrity may be linked to UK grants
13 July 2012 News and Analysis
Universities UK concordat on good research conduct suggests that signatories could make commitments part of grant conditions
Möbius molecules with a twist
6 July 2012 Research
Adding a simple molybdenum oxygen linker breaks the symmetry of a simple cluster making a molecular Möbius strip
Fighting plaque with bacterial toothpaste
5 July 2012 Research
Anti-biofouling research could find its way into our toothpaste
Fish with crystal clear vision
1 July 2012 Research
The elephantnose fish improves its sight by making use of photonic crystals
New chief scientific adviser announced
28 June 2012 News and Analysis
Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, has been named as the next UK chief scientific adviser
Fracking given green light by UK report
28 June 2012 News and Analysis
A new government report, written by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, finds fracking safe if managed correctly
Hydrophobic display writes on water
28 June 2012 Research
Two level structural hydrophobicity can be used for reversible data storage
Stretching graphene gives quantum dots
28 June 2012 Research
Straining graphene's lattice can separate its electronic states and turn it into a semiconductor
Coca Cola urged to cut out carcinogen
27 June 2012 News and Analysis
Health concerns over 4-methylimidazole are behind US heath watchdog's petition
Clariant to sell businesses
27 June 2012 Business
Speciality chemicals company launches growth plans
Chemistry nobel laureate William Knowles dies
21 June 2012 News and Analysis
Renowned asymmetric synthesis chemist dies aged 95
94 Elements film project
20 June 2012 News and Analysis
New film project to show how the chemical elements affect our lives
Uranium dating fingers Neanderthals as artists
14 June 2012 Research
Maybe Neanderthal isn't such an insult after all
Nobel prize amount cut
11 June 2012 News and Analysis
Prize amount cut by 20% to protect capital funds
Calls for better tattoo ink regulation
11 June 2012 News and Analysis
As tattooing becomes more mainstream there is a greater need for more control over ink ingredients
CuF computation contradicts textbooks
29 May 2012 Research
Scientists reveal a mistake in inorganic textbooks, and in doing so, discover a new material for photochemical applications
The death of nano-hype?
22 May 2012 News and Analysis
Consumer’s knowledge of nanotechnologies has decreased since a previous study in 2008
Research priorities
22 May 2012 News and Analysis
The heads of the national science academies of 15 countries have urged governments to focus on three ‘global dilemmas’
MOFs meet rotaxanes
22 May 2012 Research
A rotaxane has been used as a linker in the manufacture of a metal organic framework
Norway tests CCS
22 May 2012 News and Analysis
The Norwegian government has finally opened its carbon capture and storage (CCS) test facility at Mongstad
Space dino retraction
22 May 2012 News and Analysis
A recent perspective article by Ron Breslow of Columbia University in the US has now been retracted
Methane hydrate success
22 May 2012 News and Analysis
The US and Japan have successfully completed their trial of methane hydrate production technologies
Borosulfate breaks through
22 May 2012 Research
Henning Höppe created potassium borosulfate by heating potassium sulfate with boric and sulfuric acids
Sensor sniffs out ripening
22 May 2012 Research
A new carbon nanotube-based sensor can sniff out sub-ppb concentrations of ethylene, the plant hormone involved in the ripening of fruit
Miniaturised lab-on-a-disc
21 May 2012 Research
The invention of the miniature lab-on-a-disc, or miniLOAD
Space whisky
21 May 2012 News and Analysis
Scotch whisky has been sent up to the ISS to see how it matures in zero gravity
Chemists in the House
1 May 2012 Feature
Laura Howes talks to politicians who have made the move from the lab to the benches of power
Explosion kills two
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Evonik plant that produced nylon 12 intermediate in Germany shut down
EPA blocks 2,4-D ban
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Agency turns down petition to ban widely used herbicide
Canada's triclosan concern
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Government is urging companies to remove the antibacterial compound triclosan from products
UK dementia cash
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
The UK prime minister has pledged to double funding for dementia research
Smarter fabric for soldier uniforms
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
UK soldiers could soon be wearing uniforms with e-textiles woven into them
Fertiliser use increase atmospheric N20 levels
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Over the past 50 years fertiliser use has contributed to the rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide levels
Old reactions to help the new
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
US chemists have delved into the history of organic chemistry to better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule
Gnomadic experiment
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Kern and Sohn take a gnome around the world to calibrate balances
Controlling vibrating droplets
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Texture ratchets can direct droplet motion and could simplify labs-on-a-chip
Ink wells to solar cells
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Scientists in China have found a cheaper and more efficient alternative to commercial electrodes in fountain pen ink.
Watching the double-slit experiment in real time
20 April 2012 News and Analysis
Researchers have repeated the double slit experiment at the heart of quantum mechanics with the largest molecules ever used
Sherry Rowland dies at 84
1 April 2012 News and Analysis
Atmospheric chemist Frank Sherwood Rowland died on Saturday 10 March, aged 84
Temporary tattoo to give you the sporting edge
27 March 2012 News and Analysis
This Saturday, Nascar racer Paulie Harraka will be using a device based on John Rogers work at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to monitor his hydration levels as he races
tattoo to give you the sporting edge
27 March 2012 News Archive
Nascar racer Paulie Harraka's hydration has been monitored using an epidermal electronic device
Children's lungs are more susceptible to nanoparticles
13 March 2012 Research
Infant lungs are particularly prone to nanoparticle deposition from pollution or inhaled medicines
Investment in nanoscience for health
1 March 2012 News and Analysis
Over £65 million has been awarded to seven business-led projects aimed at developing therapeutic and diagnostic technologies that use nanotechnology
Asia beats US R&D spend
1 March 2012 News and Analysis
A bloc of 10 Asian countries now accounts for 32% of global spending on science
Thermal imaging on the wing
12 February 2012 News Archive
Butterfly wings have been turned into infrared detectors by covering them in carbon nanotubes
Polyrotaxanes zip themselves up
9 February 2012 News Archive
The power of pi stacking overcomes entropy and links up polyrotaxanes with high yields
A simple separation solution for carbon nanotubes
18 January 2012 News Archive
Metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be easily separated using their electronic characteristics
Sense-act-treat, the nanopharmacy on a patch
11 January 2012 News Archive
A biofuel-based device controlled by molecular logic could one day detect and treat injuries wherever you are
Surfing the plasmonic wave
5 January 2012 News Archive
New technique reveals the electric field created by optical excitation of plasmonic modes
Artificial hips glide on graphite
22 December 2011 News Archive
Artificial hips lubricate themselves by grinding up proteins, but are graphite fragments something we want in our bodies?
Cutting edge chemistry in 2011
20 December 2011 News Archive
Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year's crop of chemical science papers
Soot inspires a self-cleaning glass
1 December 2011 News Archive
Using candle soot as a template leads to a transparent coating that is both water and oil repellent
Covalent self-healing materials
9 November 2011 News Archive
Japanese researchers have created a gel that harnesses free radicals to heal without any outside help
Zap and the aromaticity is gone
9 November 2011 News Archive
Laser pulses can be used to 'switch off' aromaticity in benzene molecules
EPSRC sticks to its shaping capability guns
8 November 2011 News Archive
Frustration persists in the UK chemistry community over council decisions on the funding future for the field
Predicting the perfect MOF
6 November 2011 News Archive
Computer program takes the guesswork out of making MOFs and produces world's best methane-holding structure
Quasicrystals Scoop Prize
28 October 2011 Feature
This year's Nobel laureate in chemistry fought hard to win acceptance of his discovery: quasicrystals. Laura Howes tells how perseverance led to the ultimate recognition
Clicking together synthetic antibodies
28 October 2011 News Archive
Enzymes can be used as templates to produce synthetic antibodies via click chemistry reactions
Crystals that aren't quite crystalline win Nobel
5 October 2011 News Archive
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals
Fuelling the future
29 September 2011 Feature
Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term, as Laura Howes finds out
Conjuring up gram quantities of stabilising anion
28 September 2011 News Archive
German chemists have made gram quantities of an extremely useful anion via a rather scary route
Science budget ringfence questioned by report
16 September 2011 News Archive
Changes to what is defined as science could see the UK science budget fall by as much as £1.7 billion
Aspirin still has some secrets left to give up
14 September 2011 News Archive
Researchers discover an overlooked chemical interaction in aspirin that could help understand protein structure
Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames
1 September 2011 News Archive
Environmentally friendly polymer coating expands to form a flame-proof foam in the face of fire
ACS aims to stimulate creation of 100,000 jobs
30 August 2011 News Archive
US chemical society hopes lobbying on tax and R&D credits will boost chemistry entrepreneurial spirit
G-quadruplexes take the strain in cancer drug search
30 August 2011 News Archive
Measuring how small molecules interact with structures such as telomeres could throw up cancer drug targets
Making light work of disassembling capped nanotubes
15 August 2011 News Archive
Researchers have designed self-assembling nanotubes can be taken apart using just light
Cyclodextrin dimer makes synthetic polymerase
15 July 2011 News Archive
Chemists have created a synthetic polymerase that can produce long chains of polyesters
Putting structural transformations under the microscope
12 July 2011 News Archive
Scientists have watched a first order structural transformation at the molecule level
Beyond the frontiers
30 June 2011 Feature
In space and Antarctica, planning and running research projects transcends national borders. Laura Howes finds out how this affects the way researchers operate
Chemically evolved bacteria
30 June 2011 News Archive
New strain of E. coli uses alien DNA bases to the rest of life on Earth, and could improve the biosecurity of synthetic biology
Mystery of how plutonium enters cells solved
27 June 2011 News Archive
Plutonium enters cells by hitching a ride on a protein which could lead to ways to block uptake
Cells turned into living lasers with fluorescent protein
13 June 2011 News Archive
Physicists have made a laser that uses a fluorescent cell as the gain medium to amplify the light beam
Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule
10 June 2011 News Archive
Transition state theory may have to be rethought as quantum tunnelling affects products of an organic reaction
MPs warn funding reform threatens university places
8 June 2011 News Archive
Cross party committee warns that student places could be cut to counter a funding gap in UK higher education
New carbon material boosts supercapacitors
13 May 2011 News Archive
Porous carbon produced by a scalable method can improve the energy storage of supercapacitors to compete with batteries
Small molecule hope for muscular dystrophy
11 May 2011 News Archive
A compound that enables protein production to 'skip' mutations found in muscular dystrophy patients has been discovered
Polymer collapses in a flash
28 April 2011 News Archive
Researchers have engineered a polymer that folds up like a protein when exposed to UV light
DNA origami yields tiny flask
14 April 2011 News Archive
A tiny round bottomed flask has been made by stacking rings of DNA on top of each other
Pocket sized fuel cell, a step closer
11 April 2011 News Archive
Clean catalytic conversion of formic acid to hydrogen paves the way for pocket sized fuel cells
Long chains give new life to RNA world hypothesis
7 April 2011 News Archive
Molecular evolution of a new enzyme made of RNA has revitalised a 'dead end' in RNA chemistry
Cheap and efficient artificial leaf debuted
31 March 2011 News Archive
MIT researchers say they can make artificial leaves for less than $50 each
The explosive potential of nitrogen compounds
16 March 2011 News Archive
Two research groups looking at the explosive potential of nitrogen compounds have used their findings in very different ways
Sensitive TB diagnosis using sugar
6 March 2011 News Archive
A simple sugar can be used to label and monitor tuberculosis in the body and could form the basis of a whole body imaging agent in the future
Seaweed recruited in fight against malaria
24 February 2011 News Archive
Natural products from Fijian red seaweed have shown remarkable anti-malarial properties
Capsules for safer and more reliable lithium ion batteries
23 February 2011 News Archive
Self-healing coatings inspire improvements to the electrodes
International Year of Chemistry launches across the world
16 February 2011 News Archive
Luminaries from the world of chemistry highlight the project goals at the Paris launch event
Space ice goes against the grain
10 February 2011 News Archive
A solid mixture of methanol and water expands under pressure and shrinks when heated
Neurotoxin detection using brain nanotubes
8 February 2011 News Archive
Nanotubes from the brain could be used to detect organophosphate neurotoxins
Cells as test tubes
6 February 2011 News Archive
Chemists have used living cells as test tubes to carry out chemical reactions never before seen within living cells.
Muons take kinetic isotope effects to extremes
27 January 2011 News Archive
Scientists have used elementary particles to investigate the effect of isotope identity on one of the most fundamental reactions in chemistry
Nanoparticle divides to conquer
17 January 2011 News Archive
Nanoparticle breaks up into smaller units once it reaches a tumour, allowing it to penetrate deeper and deliver treatment more effectively
Size matters in piezoelectric materials
14 January 2011 News Archive
Piezoelectric generation two-fold better in nanowires than bulk material
Using HIV against itself
6 January 2011 News Archive
'Trojan horse' molecule uses HIV to trigger the release of the very drug that could destroy the virus
Cutting edge chemistry in 2010
21 December 2010 News Archive
Chemistry World's pick of last year's research papers
Nanotube material retains bounce at extreme temperatures
2 December 2010 News Archive
Carbon nanotubes can make a rubber like material that remains usable in a temperature range of over one thousand degrees
Cancers imaged and monitored using firefly glow
1 December 2010 News Archive
New probe uses a glowing pigment found in fireflies to signal the presence of hydrogen peroxide in the body, an indicator of tumours or disease
Making plastics from plants
25 November 2010 News Archive
Cheap biomass-derived oils could soon compete with crude oil to produce sought after chemical feedstocks for the plastics industry
Using host-guest chemistry as molecular velcro
14 November 2010 News Archive
Polymer cubes recognise each other's surface molecules to partner up and stick together on contact
Research impact rating to stay
11 November 2010 News Archive
Impact assessment to remain a key part of the UK's new research assessment framework, following a pilot scheme at a number of universities
Inhaled nanoparticles, from there to where?
7 November 2010 News Archive
The size and surface charge of nanoparticles affects where they end up in the body after they are inhaled
Blocking cancer drug's toxic side effects
4 November 2010 News Archive
Compound could drastically reduce toxic side effects associated with a widely used cancer drug by inhibiting bacterial enzyme in the gut
Molecular motors find reverse gear
1 November 2010 News Archive
Researchers use simple chemistry to trigger molecular rotary motors to switch direction
Single molecule magnets line up
27 October 2010 News Archive
Researchers encourage single molecule magnets to bind to a gold surface in a certain orientation, retaining the magnet's properties
Twist and shine
17 October 2010 News Archive
Flexible sheets of tiny LEDs could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications
France and Spain commit funds to research
14 October 2010 News Archive
France and Spain both opt for modest increases in research spending in their 2011 budgets
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