When it came to choosing his career, Stephen Yao was initially keen to stick to his comfort zone. After a PhD ‘synthesising [chemical] “building blocks” to help alleviate the bottleneck in fragment-based drug discovery’, he applied to…
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How emergency services prepare for major chemical spills | News
On 10 December 2024, a tanker overturned on the Humber Bridge in the north of England spilling its contents onto the carriageway and adjoining slip road. At that same moment, at a country park at the bridge’s northernmost end, unsuspecting…
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Green recipe: Engineered yeast boosts D-lactic acid production
Great recipes require the perfect combination of ingredients — biotechnology recipes are no exception.
Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered the ideal genetic “recipe” to turn yeast into a tiny yet powerful eco-friendly…
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Synthesis, characterization and in silico studies of novel multifunctional imidazole-thiazole hybrids with potent antimicrobial and anticancer properties
Chemistry
The reactants that have been used in the synthesis are procured from Spectrochem. The reagents and solvents were procured from commercial sources and used without further purification. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) was conducted on…
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Hydrothermal synthesis of SnO2/cellulose nanocomposites: optical, Structural, and morphological characterization
Batzill, M. & Diebold, U. The surface science of tin dioxide. Prog. Surf. Sci. 89(1–3), 162–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progsurf.2005.09.002 (2014).
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Cationic starch styrene acrylic antibacterial emulsion based on subject object recognition of β-cyclodextrin for paper surface modification
Materials
β-CD (a water-soluble macrocyclic oligosaccharide was composed of seven D-glucopyranose by α-(1,4) bonding) was purchased from Shanghai Shanpu Chemical Co., Ltd. Adamantane formic acid was purchased from Aladdin Reagent Co., Ltd….
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Operando detection of dissolved oxygen in fluid solution using a submersible rapid scan EPR on a chip dipstick sensor
Brustolon, M. & Giamello, E. (eds) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: A Practitioner’s Toolkit (Wiley, 2009). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470432235.
Liu, S., Timmins, G. S., Shi, H., Gasparovic, C. M. & Liu, K. J. Application of in vivo EPR in…
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Synthesis, in vitro, and in silico studies of 7-fluorochromone based thiosemicarbazones as α-glucosidase inhibitors
Chemical and reagents
All precursor materials utilized in this work were acquired from different suppliers, including Fluka, Sigma Aldrich, and Oakwood without any purification. Merck was the source for analytical-grade solvents, including…
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Eleven chemists who have been honoured with a blue plaque | News
Founded in 1866, London’s blue plaque scheme, now run by English Heritage, celebrates the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked.
To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the…
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Are you fooling yourself?
Charles Piller’s Doctored and the reality of falsehoods in science
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