American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...Please credit the individual journal or the American Chemical Society as the source for this information. ... ...ACS NEWS SERVICE Aug. 8, 2007...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5, which is embargoed for 9 A. M., Eastern Time, August 15, 2007.... ... NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Special editions of the Aug. 15 and Aug. 22 PressPac will carry breaking science news...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
... ... In a study of 42 people, the concentr...American Chemical Society meets Aug. 19-23 in Boston
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Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service Weekly PressPac with news from ACS 35 peer-reviewed journals and Chemical & Engineering News.... ... ...ACS NEWS SERVICE Aug. 1, 2007...Weekly PressPac − ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5, which is embargoed for 9 A. M., Eastern Time, Aug. 6, 2007.... ... http://www.chemistry.org/news/presspac....News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
... ... ... ... ... Helper peptides that can influence the opening o...47th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
... Known as the preeminent world meeting for presenting new information on clinical and basic research in infectious diseases and anti-infective therapy, ICAAC has also traditionally served as a forum for the introduction of new antimicrobial agents. This years ICAAC will attract approximately 9,500 attendees from the United States and abroad and over 130 exhibitors are...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
... ...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, July 30, 2007) ... http://www.chemistry.org/news/presspac.ht...Secondary waste from chemical weapons stockpile disposal
A new National Research Council report looks at the U.S. Army's management of secondary waste generated during its disposal of stockpiled chemical agents. The Army estimates that millions of pounds of secondary waste will be produced before the stockpiles are fully destroyed; effective management of the waste will be critical for the timely closing of the disposal facilities. The report examines...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
... ACS NEWS SERVICE July 18, 2007...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, July 23, 2007) ...... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http://...A brain chemical that battles despair
... ... In earlier studies, Nestler and his colleagues showed that exposure to repeated...2007-2008 Genzyme/ACMGF Clinical Genetics Fellowship In Biochemical Genetics award winner announced
Bethesda, MD July 17, 2007 -- T. Andrew Burrow, MD of Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center was honored as the 2007-2008 recipient of the ...Genzyme/ACMGF Clinical Genetics Fellowship in Biochemical Genetics at the ACMG 2007 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Nashville, TN. ... The objective of this Fellowship Award is to support a national fellowship program to encourage the recruitme...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
... ... ACS NEWS SERVICE July 11, 2007... Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, July 16, 2007)... ... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http...Macrochem acquires option to license pexiganan
... "We believe this is a unique opportunity for MacroChem to broaden its product portfolio with a product that has already completed two Phase 3 clinical trials. It also fits our strategic focus and complements...Wiley extends publishing partnership with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
... AIChE enthusiastically supports the extension of our partnership with Wiley, said Stephen Smith, AIChEs Director of Techni...Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
... ... When the aphids feed on ca...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
... Over recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in the production of industrial and agricultural chemicals...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
... ...ACS NEWS SERVICE June 27/July 3, 2007...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, July 2, 2007)...... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http://ww...SNM initiatives supported by inclusions in NAS Report on competitiveness of US chemistry research
... Members of the Committee on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Chemistry included information in their report about the potential negative effect of Department of Energy funding cuts to basic science research for in vivo molecular imaging and the need for domestic radioisotope pr...Nanoparticles carry chemotherapy drug deeper into solid tumors
... In the past, similar drug carriers have improved targeted delivery of the drugs and reduced toxicity, but they sometimes decreased the drugs ability to kill the tumor cells. Using a new drug carrier, Ning Tang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and colleagues compared tumor growth an...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
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... ...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 25, 2007) ... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http:/...K-State biochemist contributes to article in Science magazine
... Michael Kanost is a distinguished professor of biochemistry, head of the department and a member of the K-State Arthropod Genomics Center. He was part of a group of international researchers whose work appears in the June 22 issue of Science. The researchers are working to understand how the immune systems in two types of mosquitoes and the fruit fly evolved over time. This way, scientists...A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
... The discovery, made possible through high-volume drug screening in zebrafish, marks the first time stem-cell production has...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
... ...ACS NEWS SERVICE: June 13, 2007...Weekly PressPac: ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 18, 2007)... ... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http://www.che...Chemical Society Boston meeting, Aug. 19-23, focuses on health, wellness, energy, environment
... ... With more than 160,000 members, the American Chemica...Rutgers findings a step toward safer chemicals in labs and industry
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Safe, versatile and environmentally friendly chemicals could replace hazardous, petroleum-based solvents used in science labs and industrial plants. Chemists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, reported research results this week on a new class of ionic liquid chemicals with these attributes.... ...Rutgers chemistry researchers Hideaki Shirota and Edwar...Sensitivity to diverse range of chemotherapeutic drugs linked to common pathway
... Resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs is the primary cause of treatment failure in...ChemGenex announces publication confirming activity of Ceflatonin in T315I-Positive CML
MELBOURNE, Australia, and MENLO PARK, California U.S.A. (June 11, 2007). ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS and NASDAQ:CXSP) announced today the publication of a report in the prestigious Nature publication Leukemia confirming the positive clinical activity of the company's lead compound, Ceflatonin against Gleevec-resistant, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) associated with the T315I Bcr-A...Scientists propose the kind of chemistry that led to life
... ... The work appears online this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...Turning the tables in chemistry
... In a commentary in this months Nature Chemical Biology, Brandeis University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Professor Irving Epstein outlines a gathering storm clouding the future of U.S. science and prescribes a series of strategies to help avert a loom...2007 Image of the Year: Molecular imaging relates human brain chemistry to aggressive behavior
... One of the major scientific contributions of molecular imaging is...Better chemistry through living models
... ... This is a basic research project, but one that we hope will provide new knowledge that will be pertinent to the production of hydrogen or oxidatio...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
... ... ... ACS NEWS SERVICE May 30, 2007... ... PressPac Archive: <A HREF="http://www.c...ChemGenex reports successful personalized dosing of Quinamed at ASCO
MELBOURNE, Australia, and MENLO PARK, California U.S.A. (June 4, 2007). ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ: CXSP) announced today the presentation of data from its Quinamed (amonafide dihydrochloride) phase 1/2a dose-escalation study, designed to identify a genotypically optimised dose of Quinamed in heavily pre-treated patients with a variety of solid tumors. The key outcomes from this...PET accurately identifies esophageal cancer patients' positive responses to chemotherapy
... "This is the first study to apply PET results from early metabolic response assessment to clinical decision making in the treatment of common solid tumors," said Ken Herrmann, a resident in the department of nuclear medicine at Technical University in Munich, Germany. "The outco...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
... ... ... ... About a tool that allows for more rapid drug discovery by combining several less specific molecular fragments into one lar...Story ideas from the Journal of Biological Chemistry
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... This article was featured as a "Paper of the Week" by the Journal of Biological Chemistry's Editors,...Jet lag: It's all about chemical reactions in cells
Circadian clocks regulate the timing of biological functions in almost all higher organisms. Anyone who has flown through several time zones knows the jet lag that can result when this timing is disrupted.... Now, new research by Cornell and Dartmouth researchers explains the biological mechanism behind how circadian clocks sense light through a process that transfers energy from light to chemic...Chemotherapy drug shrinks brain tumors
... ... The study found temozolomide reduced the size of brain tumors in 5...Combining NSAIDs with chemotherapy, radiation may improve cancer treatment
... However, certain NSAIDs may be better suited to treating cancer, in combination with standard therapies, rather than preventing it, according to new research by scientists at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver Col...