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The Curious Wavefunction (Free subscription) | yesterday
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....
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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...
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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.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A norepinephrine precursor helps reverse learning and memory difficulties in lab studies.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
U.S., China pledge to cooperate on greenhouse gas mitigation.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Safety: Stakeholders are divided over how sweeping changes to TSCA ought to be.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
BMS is splitting off nutrition company to focus on biopharmaceuticals.
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The Age (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are overflowing as administrators cut back on cleaners.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Research funding: Inspector general finds agency not scrutinizing how institutions manage grantees financial conflicts.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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. Mitchell Weiss and Gerd Blobel at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, they focused specifically on the complex process...
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Zeolites: Method forms large pores without sacrificing small ones.
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Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Chemical Ecology: It's not just plants and termites that rely on symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria; ants do, too.
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Green Options (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change . According to a new a study by Purdue University and NASA, the major chemicals most frequently cited as leading to climate change, namely carbon dioxide and methane , are actually outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention. The majority of “greenhouse...
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Scott's Web Log (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
About 2 weeks ago, I was in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area to attend the Diabetes Research Institute's Diabetes 2.0 Conference. I have attended several of their New York conferences in the past, but I had never been to their home-base in Florida before (ironic, considering my brother and sister both live nearby). Anyway, I was given a rare opportunity, along with some of my D-Blogging peers including...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to Congress [...]
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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
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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,
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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