May 26, 2010
Posted at 7:51 am by David Bradley
ChemistryViews just launched, so here’s my first link to my stuff on there together with the regular Alchemist round-up and a surprising finding about espresso.
Small molecules for fighting cancer – My first short feature article in the all-new ChemistryViews magazine from Wiley covers research into tumor necrosis factor (TNF-alpha)
Alchemist news – This week, The Alchemist hears how chemists are helping deal with the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that mosquitoes …
May 25, 2010
Posted at 1:00 pm by David Bradley
An oft-repeated message from scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), mapping the human genome, the search for extraterrestrial life and other vast scientific projects, such as supercomputing experiments is that the tera-bytes, peta-bytes, perhaps even the yotta-bytes of data generated by large-scale projects is hard to handle, to say the least.
Not only has there to be a way to manage the outpouring of …
May 20, 2010
Posted at 1:00 pm by David Bradley
Yesterday’s blog feature quoted my various contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere on what program they use to draw chemical structures. There were some interesting answers, including mentions of sites like ChemSpider and PubChem that are not drawing packages per se but do allow you to retrieve a vast array of molecular structures.
Today, I thought it would be interesting to run a more formal poll on the question. You can choose up to 2 …
May 19, 2010
Posted at 9:00 pm by David Bradley
Chemical structure drawing is of ongoing interest to chemists so we have a list of programs and reviews by users. Of course, with the likes of PubChem and ChemSpider now available one might wonder whether there is any need to draw one’s own structures from scratch, but plenty of chemists and others still do. Sciencebase polled a few contacts via Twitter and LinkedIn to find out what chemical structure packages people are …
Posted at 11:25 am by David Bradley
Wood is the focus of new research into biofuels, while removing toxins from other crops is important for biofuels and food supply. Forest fires and phosphorus are analysed while the route discovered to taken by aluminium through the aquatic foodchain might quell some pollutant fears. This week’s column on SpectroscopyNOW.com:
What’s wood worth? – X-ray technique confirms the properties of catalysts used to make biofuels derived from a potentially sustainable woody source, lignocellulose.
Spectral statistics …
May 18, 2010
Posted at 7:00 pm by David Bradley
Tellurium steroids, angiogenesis against cancer, favourite chemical things and more…
My name is tellura – Drugs based on tellurium catch the eye of Derek Lowe
Antiangiogenic "anticancer" foods – Can eating these foods help prevent pin-head sized cancers that grow in people from gaining the blood vessels they need to grow into something malignant? In other words, can we eat to starve cancer?
Spicing meat cuts cancer risk – They say variety is the spice …
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