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Chemistry World February 2007 Philip Ball |
The Crucible Molecular biology isn't just about the cleverness of proteins and nucleic acids. Even the molecules often assumed to be just part of the scaffolding, such as lipids, and the very water that bathes them all, may have inventive roles to play. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA in nanotubes sorts molecules Researchers have made a synthetic membrane that recognizes certain biochemical molecules and allows them to pass through. The method could be used to make biological sensors like those needed for genetics research, and to sort biological molecules, |
Chemistry World March 6, 2011 Mike Brown |
Molecules that walk, hop and jump 'Two legged' molecules walk, hop and fly across a receptor surface, according to researchers in the Netherlands and Ireland. The findings could help us understand how viruses and bacteria interact with cell membranes, they say. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Self-assembling, squeezy nanotubes made Researchers have developed dynamic nanotubes that open and shut depending on temperature. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core. |
Chemistry World March 15, 2010 James Urquhart |
All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Proton Joins Elite Club of Cellular Messengers Researchers have discovered a new chemical that carries messages rapidly between cells - the first for more than 20 years. But unlike conventional signalling molecules, this is a far simpler chemical entity: it is the humble proton. |
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. |
Chemistry World January 4, 2007 Henry Nicholls |
Microscopic Lab Investigates Contents of a Cell It's small-scale science that could have a massive impact on research into cell biology. Scientists have produced a microscopic laboratory where they can count individual proteins in a single cell. |
Chemistry World April 6, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Immune cells fight off nanotubes Carbon nanotubes can be degraded by an enzyme found in human immune cells, report US researchers. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology. |
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance |
Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Self-assembling yarn shows its strength It is soft, strong and very, very long. Chinese chemists have created meters of a yarn that self-assembles from nothing more than a mixture of simple monomers in water. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Double emulsions could carry combination therapies US scientists have made nanoscale water-in-oil-in-water emulsions that could have important applications in drug delivery. |
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World June 24, 2010 Mike Brown |
Movies of molecules in 4D Movies of carbon nanotube bracelets showing their response over time to an external trigger have been recorded enabling greater understanding of not only the 3D structure of the nanotubes, but of how they react and move, say scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Mike Brown |
Carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage Researchers in Germany have designed a 3D carbon-based nanotube matrix that can store and release hydrogen extremely efficiently. The material could form the basis of a sustainable hydrogen economy, they say. |
Chemistry World February 28, 2013 Andy Extance |
Chemical transport defines 'Goldilocks' cell size A US team has suggested molecular movement as an answer to the question of why cells are the size they are. A question that they say 'still awaits an answer from first principles'. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Virus Forms Nano Template Living matter self-assembles into complex organisms that can contain billions of cells, and researchers have tapped biological molecules like DNA and viruses to self-assemble technologically useful structures and materials. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Drug uptake rule challenged A study by UK scientists apparently contradicts a 100-year-old rule thought to govern the rate at which molecules cross biological membranes. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level |
Chemistry World February 23, 2012 Russell Johnson |
Powering up fuel cells A hydrogen fuel cell that uses carbon nanotubes to increase the amount of electrocatalyst attached to electrodes has been designed by UK scientists. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2012 |
Protein power Tom Muir, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, Princeton University, US, is an expert in protein engineering and its application to studying cellular signalling networks. |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 |
RNA forms nanomotor Researchers from Purdue University have constructed a tiny motor from DNA and RNA molecules. The device, fueled by ATP, which powers our own movements, could eventually power nanomachines. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties. |
Chemistry World December 13, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Scientists unveil tiniest switch Researchers in Germany claim to have created the world's smallest molecular switch, relying on the movement of just a single proton. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Molecular Traffic Spied in Nanoscale Tube Network Chemists in Germany have tracked single molecules diffusing through a porous solid for the first time. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Intellectual Ferment There are exciting connections between chemistry and biology from both "sides" of the disciplinary divide. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Protein threading paves the way for nanomachines A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has discovered how proteins are threaded through pores in cell membranes. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2013 Philip Ball |
Protons wander freely in icy gas giant cores If you squeeze ice hard enough, its protons fall off. That's the conclusion of a new study by Malcolm Guthrie of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and colleagues. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Artificial membrane harvests light like a cell Photosensitive compounds built into an artificial membrane can capture light energy in the same way as proton pumps found in biological cells. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 |
Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts. |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules. |
Chemistry World September 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Cell Destruction by Gel Implosion Scientists in Hong Kong have shown that creating a gel inside bacterial cells can stunt their growth. This research is a step towards developing novel treatments that would target rapidly-reproducing cells such antibiotic-resistant superbugs. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires. |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics. |
Chemistry World November 8, 2012 Laura Howes |
Self-tying trefoil knot If knotting up molecules is so difficult why not take a tip from nature and get the molecules to do the work for you? This is what Cambridge University researchers found when one of their molecules did indeed tie itself in knots. |
Chemistry World August 11, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Enzyme Inspired Nickel Complex Races to Produce Hydrogen A cheap nickel catalyst could pave the way for the industrial production of hydrogen - a step on the road to a hydrogen economy. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Long-life light illuminates cells The new dye, based on platinum, will carry on emitting light long after any interfering 'autofluorescence' from naturally occurring molecules in the cell has fizzled out. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Excess protons play hopscotch in water Scientists in the US have observed how excess protons move through water. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Giving molecules a stretch A simple way to stretch small molecules and measure the forces at play has been developed by researchers in the US. |