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Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Proton Joins Elite Club of Cellular Messengers Researchers have discovered a new chemical that carries messages rapidly between cells - the first for more than 20 years. But unlike conventional signalling molecules, this is a far simpler chemical entity: it is the humble proton.
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Chemistry World July 7, 2011 Hayley Birch	Could Life Have Emerged Inside Inorganic Shells? The basic components of cells can operate within the bounds of inorganic membranes made from nanoparticles, a new study shows.
Chemistry World June 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Mimicking Biophysics with Water Droplets Scientists have micro-engineered water droplets into protocells. Protocell networks can mimic real biophysical events within living cells.
Chemistry World February 28, 2013 Andy Extance	Chemical transport defines 'Goldilocks' cell size A US team has suggested molecular movement as an answer to the question of why cells are the size they are. A question that they say 'still awaits an answer from first principles'.
Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes.
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.
Chemistry World June 25, 2012	Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem.
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden	Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging.
Chemistry World June 4, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Man-made protocell hosts DNA synthesis US researchers have taken a step towards creating a synthetic cell in the laboratory that could resemble the first primitive stirrings of life on Earth.
Chemistry World September 23, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles Hide Behind Protein Cloak Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown.
Chemistry World May 6, 2010 Andy Extance	Nanotube chip creates bioelectronic link A protein coupled with a carbon nanotube has provided a previously unavailable direct biological-to-electronic interface, which its developers hope could lead to brain-controlled prosthetic devices.
Chemistry World March 5, 2007 Victoria Gill	Protein Stops HIV Infection in its Tracks Researchers have identified a protein that might help explain why promising microbicide gels are yet to prove effective against HIV transmission.
Chemistry World May 12, 2008 Simon Hadlington	'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria.
Chemistry World January 4, 2007 Henry Nicholls	Microscopic Lab Investigates Contents of a Cell It's small-scale science that could have a massive impact on research into cell biology. Scientists have produced a microscopic laboratory where they can count individual proteins in a single cell.
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Chemistry World February 13, 2006	Nanoparticles Detect Cell Suicide Plans Researchers have developed a nanotechnological assay for detecting programmed cell death. The technique is effective in cell cultures, they report, and might eventually be used in humans.
Scientific American June 2008 Melinda Wenner	How Cells Make Use of Random Biochemical Reactions New studies reveal how cells exploit biochemical randomness.
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Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Philip Ball	Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent.
Chemistry World September 21, 2010 Hayley Birch	Self-pumping membrane mimics cell machinery US researchers have imitated the transport functions of biological membranes by incorporating tiny pumps into synthetic membranes. They say their 'self-pumping' mimics could be used in compartment-less fuel cells.
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Enforcing Order Changing the spatial arrangement of molecules in a cell can alter their functions.
Chemistry World January 11, 2007 Victoria Gill	How to Survive at 400 Degrees C Certain deep-sea residents manage to survive their searingly hot, toxic habitat by making their own food. Chemists in the US have now identified the molecules that make this possible.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Amber Dance	A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Virus Forms Nano Template Living matter self-assembles into complex organisms that can contain billions of cells, and researchers have tapped biological molecules like DNA and viruses to self-assemble technologically useful structures and materials.
Chemistry World May 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Combination nanoparticles to fight cancer Korean chemists have assembled a multitalented nanoparticle that can hunt down, treat, and illuminate cancerous cells.
Chemistry World July 28, 2009 Michael Gross	DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise.
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Chemistry World June 6, 2014 Philip Ball	Chemistry gets strange at water's surface The attraction of opposite charges may get even stronger near the interface, say colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential.
Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Bendy solar cells that can take the heat Chemists in Switzerland and China have used a liquid electrolyte to make flexible solar cells that are better than current devices at withstanding heat from the sun's rays.
Chemistry World November 10, 2006 Victoria Gill	Healing Threads Spun From Living Cells Researchers have successfully made microthreads from polymers containing living cells, using a technique called electrospinning. These biologically active threads could be formed into medical scaffolds, to deliver cells directly to tissue and promote healing.
Chemistry World October 24, 2008 Hayley Birch	Proteins swap partners UK researchers have discovered that proteins which use metal cofactors can be surprisingly promiscuous metal binders, happily taking up the 'wrong' metal.
Chemistry World April 20, 2012 Jennifer Newton	Nanocrystal probes mimic viruses to gain entry into cells Colloidal polymer vectors loaded with nanocrystal probes enter cells in the same way as a virus and can be used to track cells for therapies such as those based on stem cells
Chemistry World August 15, 2007 John Bonner	Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Jennifer Newton	Measuring cells' oxygen levels with PEBBLEs Scientists in Germany have developed a strategy to visualise oxygen concentrations in cells to better understand its role in biological reactions such as metabolism.
Chemistry World October 2, 2012 Fiona McKenzie	Protein sorting within cells US scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles with specific ligands to latch on to and visualize specific proteins in living cells.
Chemistry World November 25, 2013 Carla Pegoraro	Steering cells towards biocomputers Bacterial toxins that undergo unique cell interactions have been used to perform logic functions by researchers in Germany. This innovation will help push the limits of synthetic biology.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Jim Schnabel	Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells.
Chemistry World June 7, 2011 Fiona McKenzie	Probing cells' power generators UK scientists have developed a probe to monitor bicarbonate concentrations in mitochondria - components in living cells that generate chemical energy.
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson	Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments.
Scientific American September 19, 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Chatting Up Cells Stem cells can transform into whatever cell the body tells them to. Unfortunately, scientists have yet to master that particular gift of gab. But investigators may soon crack the language with tiny "chat rooms" for stem cells.
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Hacking into chemical cell phone calls US researchers have made a nanodevice that can eavesdrop on a cell's mutterings, and they say it could be adapted to listen in on conversations between cells.
Chemistry World April 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Super Cells Made with 'Inorganic Armor' Chemists in China have coated living cells with egg-like shells, granting them a wide range of new properties.
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Elise Lamar	Cells on the Move The biochemical signals that set cells on a journey are as diverse as the tissues they move through, but the engine is driven by constant remodeling of a protein network built from a box of cellular Legos.
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes.