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Opto-Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Toxic Gases
As reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry, Kenneth Suslick and his team at the University of Illinois have developed an artificial nose for the general detection of toxic indus...
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Read moreUnlocking the body’s defences against cancer
University of Manchester researchers found that a special type of the chemicals known as ‘kinase inhibitors’ opened up communication channels on the surface of cells that enabled healthy cells to ‘tal...
Life Sciences | Read moreThe first gene-encoded amphibian toxin isolated
Researchers in China have discovered the first protein-based toxin in an amphibian –a 60 amino acid neurotoxin found in the skin of a Chinese tree frog. This finding may help shed more light into both...
Life Sciences | Read moreAirway cells use 'tasting' mechanism to detect and clear harmful substances
The study, published online July 23 in Science Express, shows that receptors for bitter compounds that are found in taste buds on the tongue also are found in hair-like protrusions on airway cells....
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSafer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs
"It is the first luminescent nanoparticle that was purposely designed to minimize toxic side effects," said Michael Sailor, a chemistry professor at the University of California, San Diego w...
Health and Medicine | Read moreRescue Robot Exercise Brings Together Robots, Developers, First Responders
This exercise was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to develop performance standards for robots for use in urban search and rescue missions....
Interdisciplinary Research | Read moreBiologists Find Diatom to Reduce Red Tide’s Toxicity
It’s estimated that the red tide algae, Karenia brevis, costs approximately $20 million per bloom in economic damage off the coast of Florida alone. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology h...
Life Sciences | Read moreStudent, Prof Present Research on Invasive Weed
Senior Jonathan Finger of Algonquin, Ill., launched a research project into methods for controlling garlic mustard in the spring of 2007 at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute in southwestern Michigan. He sa...
Life Sciences | Read moreGenetic technology reveals how poisonous mushrooms cook up toxins
Alpha-amanitin is the poison of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides. The Michigan State University plant biology research associate was looking for a big gene that makes a big enzyme that produ...
Life Sciences | Read moreAphids make ‘chemical weapons’ to fight off killer ladybirds
The study shows for the first time how aphids use a chemical found in the plants they eat to emit a deadly burst of mustard oil when they’re attacked by a predator, for example a ladybird. This mustar...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreAn 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later
The effectiveness of sodium phenylacetate and sodium benzoate, two chemicals the body already makes to carry nitrogen for disposal in urine "just knocked my socks off from the moment we first tri...
Life Sciences | Read moreDevice Uses Solar Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
Many Earth Week activities will draw attention to the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting impact on global climate. Now Clifford Kubiak, professor of chemis...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreResearchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells
Attempts to identify potential drugs that interfere with the action of one particular enzyme linked to heart disease and similar health problems led scientists at Johns Hopkins to create a new tool an...
Life Sciences | Read moreGladstone researchers identify new drug target for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer’s disease. Working wit...
Life Sciences | Read moreTiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
Bimetallic nanoparticles break down TCE 100 times faster than bulk catalysts New research from Rice University’s Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnol...
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