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Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Jennifer Newton |
Seeing cells under stress An analytical platform that imposes controlled mechanical strain onto live cells while monitoring changes in cell morphology and molecular signalling has been developed by scientists in Germany. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2014 David Bradley |
Elemental discoveries at the cellular level A combination of two high-power analytical techniques -- synchrotron radiation microscopy and atomic force microscopy -- has allowed Italy scientists to map vital elements in a single cancer cell. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2012 Fiona McKenzie |
Sorting the good from the bad US scientists have found a way to separate cancerous cells from healthy cells by taking advantage of their adhesion properties. Separating cancer cells for analysis is a critical step for determining the recommended course of treatment for patients. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Infrared offers odds on skin cancer spreading Scientists in Belgium have shown that infrared spectrometry can help predict how likely it is that a melanoma tumor, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has spread to other organs. |
Chemistry World May 13, 2013 Harriet Brewerton |
Early malaria diagnosis Now, Nicholas Smith and colleagues at Osaka University have shown that Raman spectroscopy can detect changes in heme and hemozoin in plasma samples to identify malarial infection. |
Chemistry World May 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Revolutionary new single-cell labelling method Researchers in the US and Canada have combined mass spectrometry with a technique called flow cytometry to follow dozens of biochemical markers on individual cells simultaneously. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2012 Harriet Brewerton |
Pressurizing red blood cells for information Scientists in Canada have developed a method to study the changes in red blood cells caused by the most common malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. |
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Julia Boguslavsky |
'Fingerprinting' a Single Cell Single-cell proteomics is finally within reach, thanks to a professor of analytical chemistry. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2009 Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
Chemistry World June 15, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Electrochemical Screening for Anti-Cancer Drugs A test that predicts an individual cancer patient's response to different drugs is about to enter clinical trials, developers have announced. The chances of successful treatment will increase, they predict, while costs will decrease. |
Scientific American June 2008 Melinda Wenner |
How Cells Make Use of Random Biochemical Reactions New studies reveal how cells exploit biochemical randomness. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2013 Helen Potter |
A new system for cancer detection Cancer cells have been found to differ from normal cells in several ways, including the make up of their cell membranes. Cancer-cell membranes have been found to contain more anionic lipids than normal cells, leading to an overall negatively charged cell surface. |
Smithsonian March 2004 |
Signal Discovery? A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases |
Chemistry World January 16, 2014 |
The art of alternatives Recent years have seen great advances in alternatives to animal tests. Yet we still need to understand how and why compounds are toxic before we can make the giant leap to replacement. |
Reactive Reports Issue 55 David Bradley |
Testing the Byproducts of Cell Death A new approach to testing whether a particular chemotherapy agent is working well in treating a patient's cancer is being developed by UK scientists |
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Mark D. Uehling |
Profiling Drugs via Microscopy With robotic equipment, this Harvard team scans cells faster than researchers can blink their eyes. |
Chemistry World April 11, 2006 Jon Evans |
Nanotechnology Tackles Chemotherapy Chemists and medical researchers have developed nanoparticles that target chemotherapy drugs directly at tumours. The researchers claim that the same technique could be used to develop nanoparticle-based treatments for a wide range of other diseases. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Light Shed on Parkinson's Culprit European scientists have developed a new technique to detect attogram quantities of iron in living cells -- providing further evidence of the role the metal plays in Parkinson's disease. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead |
Circulating cancer cells spiral towards separation A new biochip developed by researchers in Singapore can isolate tumor cells from blood samples, and may one day be an alternative to more invasive methods for tracking later stage cancers. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2009 Michael Gross |
DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise. |
Reactive Reports Issue 56 Jeffrey Krise |
A Basic Approach to Chemotherapy Chemists have found a way to attack malignant cells with an anticancer drug, while sparing healthy cells. |
Chemistry World April 8, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Natural biomarker can signal cancer The researchers discovered that cancerous cells contain on average twice as much nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide than normal cells, and that they contain a higher proportion of NADH that is still in the mitochondria and unbound to enzymes. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Amber Dance |
A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria. |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 |
Baited molecule fights cancer Many teams of researchers are working on ways to use nanotechnology to deliver anticancer drugs directly to cancerous tissue. |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Malorye A. Branca |
Scenes from a Cell Breakthroughs are making cell-based screening faster, easier, more powerful. |
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment. |
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart |
Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers. |
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Synthetic Sperm Created British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from stem cells, but other experts questioned their data. |
Chemistry World October 17, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Quickly sorting cells using DNA A new magnetic cell sorting technique uses principles borrowed from DNA nanodevices. The approach could help scientists rapidly separate different types of cells from complex mixtures. |
Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos |
Artificial intestine for gut studies Three-dimensional hydrogel scaffolds for studying cells under realistic physiological conditions have been made by scientists from the US and Korea to study drug absorption in the gut. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson |
Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments. |
Popular Mechanics November 27, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
A cell for a cell If you ever need to isolate a single bacterial cell, why not build it a prison cell? This is the approach that colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories, US, have taken. Using multi-photon lithography, they can construct four walls and a roof around a single cell in just over a minute. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2013 Carla Pegoraro |
Steering cells towards biocomputers Bacterial toxins that undergo unique cell interactions have been used to perform logic functions by researchers in Germany. This innovation will help push the limits of synthetic biology. |
Chemistry World November 11, 2009 James Urquhart |
Structural snapshots of complex molecules US researchers have pioneered a new spectroscopy technique to uncover the precise sequence of atomic movements and structural changes that occur during complex chemical transformations. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2011 Elinor Richards |
3D model to study breast cancer Scientists from the US have made a computational model of the formation of breast acini, the sac-like part of the milk-producing glands, to understand complex events occurring during the progression of breast cancer. |
Chemistry World December 13, 2010 James Urquhart |
Nanotube probe for cellular studies A new way of peering inside biological cells using carbon nanotubes as tiny multifunctional endoscopes has been developed by US researchers. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2006 |
Nanoparticles Detect Cell Suicide Plans Researchers have developed a nanotechnological assay for detecting programmed cell death. The technique is effective in cell cultures, they report, and might eventually be used in humans. |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
Stem to Sperm New research shows that stem cells from human bone marrow can be converted into early-stage sperm. The discovery could lead to novel fertility treatments in the long-term. |
Chemistry World June 4, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran |
Microfluidic approach to personalised cancer treatment US scientists have developed an innovative microfluidic assay that can accurately predict how patients with a certain type of blood cancer will respond to an anticancer drug. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2011 Ross McLaren |
Giving Fuel Cells a Vitamin Boost Vitamin B12 could replace platinum catalysts in fuel cells as a cheaper alternative. |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Chip Gauges Cell Reactions Researchers have devised a way to test within minutes the reactions of cells to all types of stimuli. The researchers' system is very sensitive, relatively inexpensive, uses little power, and is portable. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
RNA stops HIV in its tracks Scientists have successfully used a biochemical Trojan horse to smuggle killer sequences of RNA into immune cells to mug invading HIV, stopping infection in its tracks |
Chemistry World September 26, 2006 Fiona Case |
Synchronised Delivery for DNA and Drugs Polymer capsules that can simultaneously deliver drug molecules and DNA into a cell could boost the power of cancer treatments. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2007 John Bonner |
Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine. |
Chemistry World December 8, 2015 Liisa Niitsoo |
A sound idea for treating lung disease Scientists in Australia have made a portable device that gently vibrates stem cells with sound waves to turn them into an aerosol. The system could be an effective route for treating various pulmonary diseases. |