All articles by Bea Perks – Page 8
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Historic chemists remembered
A blue plaque honouring two of Manchester's celebrated chemists, Edward Frankland and Henry Enfield Roscoe, has been unveiled in the city.
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Laser technology to unfold a protein mystery
Harry Gray, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded $970 000 (£518 000) to study the structures, dynamics, and misfolding of malignant proteins and peptides associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Geochemical cycles slipping into reverse
UN report records the consequences of ecosystem change
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Underworld fruit for the heart
Pomegranate juice reverses the development of atherosclerosis at the level of gene activation, report researchers in Italy and the US.
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Hormone history mirrors prion morphology
Insulin proteins pass on their structural information and add to amyloid research
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Chemistry on the fringes of the former USSR
Following admission to the European Union, are the Baltic states on course for economic reform? Bea Perks reports
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Security: Terrorism illuminated
German chemists say they have developed a system for aerial detection of possible sabotage
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Education: Moving to Manchester
Researchers are still waiting in the wings to take up positions at the all-new University of Manchester
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Innovative collaboration
The future of the chemical sciences rests on increasing support for innovation
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Education: York chemists remember Dorothy Hodgkin
New university building heralds success for chemistry department
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Analytical Science: Nature's mosquito repellent
Stressed out individuals deter blood-sucking pests
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Wave power in the UK
Engineers at the University of Durham say they have built the UK's largest linear electrical generator to harness wave power.
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Virtual chemistry course made real
Online chemistry course takes over from day-release predecessor
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Food supplements pass health check
Despite continued reports of DNA damage associated with chromium picolinate intake, the UK Food Standards Association (FSA) has stopped advising people against this supplement.
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Obituary: Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Brown, winner of the 1979 Nobel prize in chemistry, died in December 2004 at the age of 92.
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Turning it blue on the catwalk
The ancient art of extracting indigo from woad is being updated by biochemists
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Synthesis: All aboard the train for Africa
Flow chemistry doesn't immediately spring to mind alongside the word Africa, but the marketing team at technology company Syriss, Royston, UK, hope to change that
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Proteomics in a spin
Why turn to tens of thousands of pounds-worth of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment when a standard bench centrifuge will do? It's a question posed following the recent launch of Agilent Technologies' multiple affinity removal spin ca