Chemistry

Single-celled life does a lot with very little

British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Bacterial biochemistry mapped in detail.

Ten Things Every Feminist Can Be Thankful For

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Happy Thanksgiving! Hopefully you brushed up on your health care talking points with yesterday's post and you feel well equipped to debate the pros and cons of the Affordable Health Care Act. Today, however, I am going to list ten things that every feminist can be thankful for based on what has happened so far in 2009. While every day there are setbacks and difficulties in achieving gender equality,...

Cells Defend Themselves From Viruses, Bacteria With Armor Of Protein Errors

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday

When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new proteins to defend them against damage, scientists have discovered.These "regulated errors" comprise a novel non-genetic mechanism by which cells can rapidly make important proteins more resistant...

• When are errors and mistakes good ? Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with an army of protein errors - Smart Economy
• Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors - Science Daily
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Global Bully Rudd fights for foreign committee, against citizens

SBVOR (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Quoting JoNova (I inserted the links & added emphasis): “The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s ‘based on science’, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names— ‘Denier’ , and by our Prime Minister, no less. This is supposed to pass for reasoned debate? […] It’s as if calling someone a ‘denier’...

Strengthening U.S. Math And Science

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Education: President rolls out Educate to Innovate campaign.

• Obama highlights science education - Political Intelligence
• Obama Launches "EDUCATE TO INNOVATE" Program for Excellence in technology, Science, Engineering & Math - Wisconsin Technology Network

Chemistry Journals Burgeon

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Publishing: Both ACS and RCS will establish new journals in 2010.

Dow In Sharp Focus

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Business: Firm says it will invest more in high-growth, value-added chemistry.

Ocean Alert

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Climate Change: Earth's saltwater cover may be near its limit as a home for marine life and a sink for CO₂.

Giant Leap For Obstinate Targets

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Sugar Chemistry: Parallel combinatorial synthesis yields 12 hard-to-make oligosaccharides.

California axes science

The Curious Wavefunction (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

From the NYT As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent. In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are stuffed to the brim on the new reduced cleaning schedule....

Marie Curie and two American Presidents

American Presidents Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

I admit it – when I was looking up the information for my last series of posts, I got distracted looking at other winners in all the fields (I had to find my personal favorite....actually not a US President, so if you are really curious, you'll have to check out my personal blog ), but I found a fun little connection to share, so hey, I can call it productive time! Marie Curie shared the 1903...

New Research Into The Mechanisms Of Gene Regulation

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

A team led by Penn State's Ross Hardison, T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has taken a large step toward unraveling how regulatory proteins control the production of gene products during development and growth. Working with collaborators including Drs.

• New research into the mechanisms of gene regulation - Life Science World

Potential Down Syndrome Therapy Works In Mice

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

A norepinephrine precursor helps reverse learning and memory difficulties in lab studies.

Foreign Relations

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

U.S., China pledge to cooperate on greenhouse gas mitigation.

Congress Scrutinizes U.S. Chemicals Policy

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Safety: Stakeholders are divided over how sweeping changes to TSCA ought to be.

Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Gets Nobel Prize

rekon | 10/08/2009

ndian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009

Chemistry Nobel Awards For year 2009

rekon | 10/08/2009

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level,

Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

krishpatel1212@gmail | 10/08/2009

Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Cracking chemistry's mystery may be a hard nut for many, but for this trio, including two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath, playing with chemistry is merely a fun. For their acumen and expertise in chemistry, they have been awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The announcement