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Chemistry World October 19, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
The house that DNA built The 2015 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA repair. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World November 2006 Bea Perks |
Call That Chemistry? This year's Nobel prize in chemistry was a tour de force for crystallography, underscoring the vital role chemistry plays across the sciences. |
Chemistry World November 2009 |
Biology's Nobel molecule factory Three scientists who revealed the structure and workings of the ribosome have shared the 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 4, 2006 Bea Perks |
Good Year for RNA Roger Kornberg, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on the molecular basis of transcription. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2015 |
Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2008 Manisha Lalloo |
DNA-rewinding protein discovered US scientists have found an enzyme that rewinds sections of DNA whose strands have mistakenly come apart. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Two-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies Double chemistry Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger died yesterday at the age of 95. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where he spent much of his research career confirmed his death this morning. |
Chemistry World March 4, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran |
Computational chemists unpick adenine -- thymine bias A chemical model has been created to investigate the evolution of guanine -- cytosine coding regions and found that certain spontaneous mutations are more likely to arise at specific regions of DNA. |
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Chemical Probe Seeks Out DNA Damage Researchers have developed a novel way to detect damage on DNA. The finding could open the way to a new toolkit of molecular probes to investigate the impact of chemical modifications on DNA, potentially providing insights into the way that mutations in DNA can result in cancers. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Chemistry of life wins Nobel This year's chemistry Nobel prize has been awarded to scientists working on the chemistry of life - the translation of DNA information into proteins by the ribosome. |
Chemistry World November 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Andy Extance |
Polymers perform non-DNA evolution Scientists have found that six polymer alternatives to DNA can pass on genetic information, and have evolved one type to specifically bind target molecules. |
Chemistry World May 2008 Philip Ball i |
Pulling our strings There is much more to DNA than that elegant double helix. The author explores the twists and tangles of chromatin. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King |
Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
Chemistry World October 25, 2011 Jon Evans |
Carbon nanotubes detect DNA 'flipping out' US chemists have developed a way to detect the chemical modification of a single strand of DNA, by hooking it up to a pair of carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2008 Emma Davies |
Creating a Second Genetic Code Japanese researchers have made artificial DNA that acts like the real thing, even forming right-handed duplexes with complementary artificial strands. |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells. |
Reactive Reports October 2006 David Bradley |
RNA Chemistry Zips Up Nobel Prize If Watson and Crick unlocked the mystery of DNA's structure, then Stanford University's Roger Kornberg and his team unzipped the secret of how the cell converts DNA into the RNA needed to make proteins. |
Chemistry World November 29, 2010 James Mitchell Crow |
DNA readers ratchet closer Rapid, cheap DNA sequencing has just edged a step closer, thanks to a new technique to control the motion of single DNA strands as they pass through a protein nanopore 'reader'. |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA motor keeps cranking Researchers have been making DNA perform all sorts of shape-changing tricks in recent years, but the need to add pieces of DNA at every step has made it a bit of a stretch to call these molecules motors. A method that keeps the process humming changes things. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates Aaron Ciechanover, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in chemistry with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, talks about Charles Darwin. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Philip Ball |
Opinion: The Crucible The twist on DNA |
Chemistry World April 29, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Wieland's chemistry Nobel to be sold at auction The chemistry Nobel prize awarded to German chemist Heinrich Wieland in 1927 has been put up for auction at Nate D Sanders in Los Angeles, US, with a starting price of $325,000. |
Chemistry World May 21, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Rewritable DNA for digital data storage A rewritable memory storage module can form the basis of a digital memory system, scientists suggest, with the cell being able to 'record' transient changes in its internal chemistry. |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Sounding the Alarm Details on how cells detect and respond to foreign DNA may provide clues to autoimmune diseases. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2014 Emma Stoye |
BRCA2 protein imaged for first time The first detailed images of BRCA2 -- have revealed its structure and the mechanism by which it works, offering hope for new treatments. |
Chemistry World February 18, 2008 John Bonner |
Flicking the Acetyl Switch A strain of Escherichia coli that can produce proteins containing an acetylated version of the amino acid lysine could help to reveal how acetylation changes the function of hundreds of proteins inside cells. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Bacterium survives unnatural DNA transplant The first organism that can grow and replicate with an unnatural base pair in its DNA -- giving the cell six nucleotides instead of the usual four -- has been created by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Smalley & Patch |
DNA Machines Take a Walk Researchers working to form nanoscale machines and materials are increasingly tapping into nature's building blocks. |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level |
Chemistry World December 18, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Chemistry Nobel winner John Cornforth dies Sir John Cornforth, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel prize in chemistry, has died aged 96. He is best known for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, including the biosynthesis of cholesterol. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Nobel double whammy for chemistry The chemistry prize was awarded to three US chemists for 'the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems'. The peace prize went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
Science News March 25, 2006 Janet Raloff |
Meat Poses Exaggerated Cancer Risk for Some People The National Toxicology Program confirmed that heterocyclic amines that form in overcooked meat can trigger colon cancer in animals and probably do the same in people. |
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon |
Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2015 Andy Extance |
Crystals allow peek at picosecond DNA damage Right now, light is damaging DNA in your cells, but the chemistry that causes this damage remains murky. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2013 Hayley Birch |
RNA mimic destined for synthetic genome US scientists have taken another step towards the goal of creating self-replicating molecules like those thought to have spawned life on Earth. The researchers made RNA-like polymers capable of copying short sections of genetic code that they suggest could act as genomes in synthetic cells. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2013 Gordon Woods |
Nobel near miss The Periodic Table and a Missed Nobel Prize by Ulf Lagerkvist and edited by Erling Norrby, is aimed at the general science reader interested in the history of the development of scientific thought. There are biographies of many European scientists. |
Chemistry World April 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
DNA Read in a Trice The prospect of treatments that are tailored to fit an individual's genetic makeup is a step closer thanks to technology unveiled by US scientists. |
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 |
Detector senses single DNA Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have tapped differences in the folding characteristics of single-stranded and double-stranded DNA to make a sensor capable of detecting a single DNA molecule. |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Glow shows individual DNA Researchers have made a type of artificial DNA of that glows when it combines with a specific sequence of natural DNA. In principle, the method could be used to develop DNA chips that directly sense individual DNA molecules. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
DNA movement through motor proteins measured Researchers have adapted a method for DNA sequencing to measure directly and with exquisite sensitivity the movement of a single molecule of DNA as it is drawn through specialized motor proteins. |
Scientific American June 2005 JR Minkel |
RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |