Category: chemicals
When epidemiological studies suggested that an increased risk of bladder cancer accompanied the use of chlorinated water for drinking and, most recently, swimming, Bill Mitch, associate professor of
A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies.
Costas D. Maranas, professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, will discuss his research Wednesday (Oct. 28) as part of the 2009 J.D. Lindsay Lecture Series at Texas A&M University.
Authorities on safety from throughout the world will convene in College Station next week as part of a two-day symposium aimed at making the process industry a safer place and sponsored by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; we all know that. But what about a rose smelled by a non-human nose? What would it smell like?
Well, an electronic nose is no Shakespeare, so you'd lose some of the poetry.
A new study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that the lifelong effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy may occur through specific changes in DNA patterns.
A team of researchers led by the Whitehead and Broad Institutes has discovered a chemical that works in mice to kill the rare but aggressive cells within breast cancers that have the ability to seed new tumors.
These cells, known as cancer stem cells, are thought to enable cancers to spread - and
A team of MIT chemists has devised a new way to add fluorine to a variety of compounds used in many drugs and agricultural chemicals, an advance that could offer more flexibility and potential cost-savings in designing new drugs.
Drug developers commonly add fluorine atoms to drugs, such as the ch
Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs.
President Barack Obama has nominated Paul Anastas, Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, to lead the U.S.
