New results can help scientists understand the working mechanism of anesthetics
Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.
How to Model a Pain Reliever
New Treatment for Stroke?
Ceria nanoparticles could lessen the damage from ischemic strokes
Enzymes Dig Channels
Enzymatic etching used to build nano- and microscale surface topologies to allow easy and rapid detection of tumor cells in blood
Direction Selection
New method for template-directed DNA synthesis in the 3’ and 5’ directions could help explain origin of life
Glowing Flowers for Ultra-Trace Analysis of TNT
Gold mesoflowers, flower-shaped gold particles, allow the selective optical TNT detection down to the sub-zeptomole level
Ibuprofen Decoy
Pain-reliever ibuprofen makes enzyme oxidize styrene with hydrogen peroxide
Gold Nanoparticles Follow “Genetic Code”
Different sequences of DNA influence the morphology of growing gold nanocrystals
Dual Role for CO2
Carbon dioxide acts as both reactant and extractive phase in the continuous hydrogenation of CO2 to pure formic acid
Electrophilic Sneeze
Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation
Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence