Biology – Page 60

Research
Seeing glucose through the skin

2014-11-26T00:00:00Z

Technique could one day allow diabetics to manage their condition without drawing blood
Research
Crustacean culprit turns lakes to jelly

2014-11-24T00:00:00Z

Acid rain leaching calcium from Canadian water courses leads to a surge in jelly-covered organisms
Research
Metallic blood smell attracts predators

2014-11-12T00:00:00Z

Aldehyde attraction for African wild dogs helps to explain how they find their prey
Research
Engineered metalloenzyme catalyses Friedel–Crafts reaction

2014-11-03T00:00:00Z

Unnatural amino acids help expand catalytic repertoire of enzymes
Research
Earth ripe for life soon after formation

2014-11-03T00:00:00Z

Isotope ratios show asteroids delivered water to Earth early on in its history
Podcast
Human growth hormone

2014-10-29T00:00:00Z

Marketed as a path to eternal youth but banned in professional sports, Hayley Simon introduces human growth hormone
Research
Folding rules used to build unnatural proteins

2014-10-27T00:00:00Z

Understanding protein folding and stability leads to new proteins with hopes of creating structures that can perform novel chemistry
Feature
Microbial miners

2014-10-24T00:00:00Z

Jon Evans discovers the microbes hard at work on our behalf, extracting valuable metals from low-grade ore
Research
New test accelerates herpes detection

2014-10-16T00:00:00Z

Peptide-coated superparamagnetic beads latch onto herpes simplex virus-1 in rapid diagnostic assay
Business
Becton Dickinson to buy CareFusion for $12bn

2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Medical devices merger continues consolidation trend
Research
BRCA2 protein imaged for first time

2014-10-06T00:00:00Z

Insights into DNA repair mechanism could pave the way for new cancer therapies
Podcast
Chemistry World podcast - October 2014

2014-10-03T00:00:00Z

We speak to Jason Sello about the hunt for new antibiotics, and Monique Simmonds explains the chemical role of botanical gardens
Research
Photosynthesis-free route to oxygen gives early Earth atmosphere clues

2014-10-02T00:00:00Z

Oxygen can be produced from carbon dioxide using UV radiation
Research
Viruses melt ‘glassy’ DNA

2014-10-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers have shown how viruses liquefy their own DNA ready to inject into host cells
Research
Tiny tips reveal cells’ chemical secrets

2014-09-30T00:00:00Z

Penetrating microprobe enables rapid mass spectrometry of single cells’ contents
Feature
The molecules that make memory

2014-09-26T00:00:00Z

The chemistry of making – and losing – memories is increasingly well understood, as Rachel Brazil discovers
News
NIH wants scientists to consider sex in research

2014-09-26T00:00:00Z

Preclinical and clinical research is overreliant on male test subjects which can cloud future work in humans
Research
Breakup reaction hints at handedness of nature

2014-09-25T00:00:00Z

Dissociation of 3-bromocamphor provides clues on why nature favours one mirror image of a molecule over another
Research
First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule

2014-09-25T00:00:00Z

Discovery shows that stellar nurseries could hold amino acids too that might have been the spark for life on Earth
Feature
Faster, cheaper, better diagnostics

2014-09-24T00:00:00Z

Microfluidics researchers are aiming to bring new diagnostic devices into mainstream medicine. Mark Peplow reports