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September 10, 2008
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Failed anxiety drug could treat cancer Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of how a drug originally developed for treating anxiety can kill cancer cells.   |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2011
David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging. |
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
July 2, 2007
Michael Gross |
Transistor tuned to ion channel As living cells can detect many compounds with high sensitivity via receptors on their membranes, researchers are keen to exploit them in electronic biosensors. Researchers in Germany now report the feasibility of just such a receptor-cell-transistor biosensor. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2009
Nina Notman |
Long live lipid membranes Scientists in the US have massively extended the lifetime of lipid membranes, with potential implications for the pharmaceutical industry |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Coupled proteins to reveal drug hits Researchers in France have successfully attached an 'electrical switch' to a key class of membrane proteins targeted by many drugs. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Paul Muhlrad |
Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm. |
Technology Research News
January 29, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential. |
Scientific American
July 3, 2006
Jeneen Interlandi |
An Immune Portal Protein may be a key to autoimmune disorders |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Self-pumping membrane mimics cell machinery US researchers have imitated the transport functions of biological membranes by incorporating tiny pumps into synthetic membranes. They say their 'self-pumping' mimics could be used in compartment-less fuel cells. |
Chemistry World
December 2007
Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline The challenge of biologics. |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2012
David Bradley |
DNA folds up into a synthetic ion channel An artificial ion channel that spans a synthetic lipid membrane has been created using DNA origami by researchers in Germany and the US. |
Chemistry World
June 2008
Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2013
David Bradley |
Breaking the mold with recycled plastic drugs James Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center, US, and colleagues have used supramolecular chemistry to self-assemble a range of polymer-like structures that display antifungal properties. |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Off-the-Peg Organic Synthesis Goes Commercial Chemists have created an efficient way to make small molecules by repeatedly using just one coupling reaction to clip together pre-prepared chemical fragments is going commercial. |
Chemistry World
November 6, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Eye drops show promise treating cataracts and even reversing damage A molecule that can bind and re-solubilize misfolded proteins in the eye has been identified by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World
May 4, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox. |
Chemistry World
January 24, 2011
Andy Extance |
Dimer delivers pinpoint recognition US researchers have synthesised a supramolecular host system that provides novel selective recognition of two different guest molecule types without cross-over or interference. |
Chemistry World
January 2010
Philip Ball |
Welcome to the machine Molecular machines have promised so much but are they more whimsical than technical? |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Diode breakthrough in molecular electronics Researchers from the US and Russia have shown how it is possible to measure the diode properties of a single molecule and how the orientation of the molecule between two electrodes can be controlled. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Column: The crucible To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball |
Chemistry World
October 27, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
Pepper plant provides drug hope Researchers have found potential new treatments for the tropical disease leishmaniasis, by isolating compounds from a pepper plant used by Peru's native Chayahuitas people as an anti inflammatory. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2014
Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 63
David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2008
Frank Washburn |
Charging Into the Future Researchers are upgrading lithium ion and green-alternative batteries for increasingly power-hungry mobile devices. |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions. |
Technology Research News
November 17, 2004 |
Lasers Drive Nano Locomotive A researcher has designed a laser-powered molecular locomotive that runs along a molecular track and can generate a pulling force ten times greater than that of kinesin, a biological molecular motor. |
Technology Research News
November 19, 2003 |
Molecular memory is electric Researchers from Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan have found a way to use a single molecule to store computer information. |
