A treatment, not a cure: Calcium silicate neutralizes an acidic stream
...e degraded slowly in the system; as a result water chemistry fluctuations were smaller than seen during limestone additions. While the study's findings are useful to land managers looking for new methods of temporarily neutralizing acid streams, Likens is quick to comment that, "Manually adding buffering agent...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...esearcher Cecilia Clementi, assistant professor of chemistry at Rice University. "In the first, proteins don't ... variables," said Vijay Pande, assistant professor chemistry and of structural biology at Stanford University and founder of the Folding@Home distributed computi...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...r's Spiers Medal recipient is University of Oregon chemistry professor Geri Richmond for her pioneering researc... elite, says Dr. Colin Bain of Oxford University's chemistry department. "Understanding the structure of water at surfaces is one of chemistry's great challen...Irwin Rose wins 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...obel Prizes were awarded to F. Sherwood Rowland in chemistry and Frederick Reines in physics. ...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
... engineering strength of Georgia Tech, the organic chemistry capabilities of Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California; and the biophysical expertise of Harvard University. The research team includes Dr. Nie as principal investigator along with Dr. Chung, Dr. Wang, and Dr. Paraskevi Giannakakou from...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
...ppola, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School and an HHMI associate investigator. "Visualization gives us a direct connection to cellular processes that we could only study in test tubes or indirectly before." In a paper published online this week in the early edition of...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...ion (something done by DNA today), carried out the chemistry necessary for life, and formed the essential physi...erUrey experiment to demonstrate the formation and chemistry of many of the common biological amino acids, sugars, and nucleotides. Orgel, who is a long-time inv...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...alth problem throughout the world; Combinatorial chemistry for drug discovery. "In the long run such emerging technologies tend to help people in developing countries more than in developed countries," says co-author Abdallah S. Daar, MD, co-director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health at t...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...Weihong Tan, a UF Research Foundation professor of chemistry and associate director of UF's Center for Research... or there is a problem." Chad Mirkin, professor of chemistry at Northwestern University and director of Northwestern's Institute for Nanotechnology, said the new...Phillip A. Sharp to present 2004 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at Chemical Heritage Foundation
... College in his home state, followed by a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He has authored more than 300 scientific papers and served on many scientific committees, including the National Cancer Institute's Advisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Dana-Farber Can......er studies have shown that genes involved in brain chemistry and stress response are expressed differently in the brains of depressed people and non-depressed people. "We can't say whether these FGF gene expression changes are a predisposing factor for depression, or a consequence of the disease process itse...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...omplementary elements that integrate biochemistry, chemistry and physics with engineering to enhance the whole ...thesis" One focus of this team's research is novel chemistry that allows a fluorescent molecule attached to a nucleotide to be detected and then removed with a f...New Jersey Institute of Technology environmentalist receives Fulbright Chair award
... environmental policy studies in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT. Her research focuses on coastal processes on beaches and dunes in estuarine and low wave energy environments. She is currently studying the relationship between beach processes and horseshoe crab reproduction in De...First-ever Texan/German symposium opens doors
...nd UH, Rigoberto Advincula, associate professor of chemistry at UH, has organized a first-ever joint symposium between a Texas research group and the MPI-P held Oct. 18-19 in Mainz, Germany. "This is a very important collaboration for UH because the MPI-P is the best place in the world to do polymer resea...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
... Mass spectrometers, essential tools in any modern chemistry lab, are often used by law enforcement to test sus...pecies," said Fenn, who is a research professor of chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. "Using this technique, the Purdue researchers were able to dete...Mollusk research center will propagate endangered species
...roject involves determining whether mussels' blood chemistry will indicate when bivalves are stressed. "Right now, the mussel is either alive or dead; we can't tell how healthy it is," Neves said. "We are also studying whether the pink heelsplitter mussel is able to produce what would be the only natural purpl...Safer medical implants, more comfortable fabrics among research items at Rochester meeting
...ov. 3, 8:30 a.m.11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom F) The chemistry of comfort Many things we use in our daily lives...Nov. 2, 8:30 a.m., Regency Ballroom B) Careers in chemistry for the deaf and hard-of-hearing A conference, Career Paths for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Chemical ...Unique new platform offers European scientific community a common voice
...cientific disciplines ranging from mathematics and chemistry to the social sciences and humanities. ISE membership is open to all European organizations....ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...of researchers led by Peter Williams, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State University. The grant, one of two awarded to ASU in this program, is part of a round of NIH funding totaling $38 million going to several research teams to spur the development of innovative techniques to dramatical...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...neat little reactive groups on the side, so you do chemistry with them." Through the reactive groups on the side of the rings, Lindsay's technology proposes to attach the ring to the sensitive AFM tip, which would thread an anchored DNA molecule into the ring and pull it through, recording the subt...