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Plastic with changeable conductivity developed by chemical engineer
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo at the University of Texas at Austin has modified a plastic so its ability to carry an electrical current can be altered during manufacturing to meet the needs of future electronic devices.
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- Green technology to boost production of malaria 'wonder drug'
02-12-2007 · University of Bath
New technologies that make the large-scale extraction of a natural antimalarial 'wonder drug' both cheaper and greener are to be developed and trialled in a new European effort. Dr Alexei Lapkin from the Department of Chemical Engineering highlights three extraction processes that can compete with hexane extraction economically, as well as being better for the environment.
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- New sensor detects gaseous chemical weapon surrogates in 45 seconds
03-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using lasers and tuning forks, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have developed a chemical weapon agent sensing technique that promises to meet or exceed current and emerging defense and homeland security chemical detection requirements. The technique, called Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing, or "QPAS," is now ready for prototyping and field testing. PNNL has demonstrated QPAS's ability to detect gaseous nerve agent surrogates. The instrument is based on Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing and infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers.
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- Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
06-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
With U.S. biodiesel production at an all-time high and a record number of new biodiesel plants under construction, the industry is facing an impending crisis over its major waste byproduct, glycerin. Rice University researchers have developed a possible solution, a new biotech process to convert glycerin into ethanol, another popular biofuel. Rice chemical engineers estimate the operational costs of the process to be about 40 percent less that those of producing ethanol from corn.
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- Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a paper published online this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers report that they have developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but whose structure and function remain unknown.
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- BCM, Rice scientists map flu's chemical key
10-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University have developed the first 3D, molecular map of the protein that allows influenza B to infect healthy cells with viral DNA. The research appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. By studying influenza B, which affects only humans, researchers hope to shed light on the genetic mutations that would allow bird flu to spread among humans.
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- Iowa State engineer develops technology to quickly find leaks in spacecraft
10-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
A research team led by Dale Chimenti, an Iowa State University professor of aerospace engineering, has developed a low-cost sensor that can help astronauts detect leaks on spacecraft such as the International Space Station.
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- Nanotechnology shows promise as next wrinkle fighter
01-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
The next big idea in preventing wrinkles is very, very small.Nano small.A Michigan State University chemical engineer has discovered that nanoparticles can stop thin polymer films from buckling and wrinkling, and that could well work to join the war by warding off dreaded buckles in human skin.
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- Biosensor sniffs out explosives
05-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Temple University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new biosensor that sniffs out explosives and could one day be used to detect landmines and deadly agents, such as sarin gas, according to a paper in the June issue of Nature Chemical Biology.
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- HU scientist finds way to catch terrorists red-handed
10-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
A scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a way to literally catch terrorists red-handed.A new chemical spray detector developed by Professor Joseph Almog of the Hebrew University's Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry detects the homemade explosive urea nitrate. When sprayed on cotton swabs taken from the hands of a suspect, if they have had recent contact with urea nitrate, the chemical will turn a blood red hue.
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- Cell growth technology promises more successful drug development
09-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have developed unique technology to grow stem cells and other tissue in the laboratory in conditions similar to the way they grow in the human body. The technology, developed and patented by scientists at Durham University, UK, and its spin-out company ReInnervate Limited, is a plastic scaffold which allows cells to be grown in a more realistic three-dimensional form compared to the traditional flat surface of a Petri dish.
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