Researchers Make An Artificial Lung That Would Not Require A Mechanical Pump
Researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio made a prototype of an artificial lung which reaches gas exchange efficiencies almost equal to the genuine organ. The small...
View ArticleDoctor, Is My Mood Disorder Due to a Chemical Imbalance?
Dear Mrs. ——– You have asked me about the cause of your mood disorder, and whether it is due to a âchemical imbalanceâ. The only honest answer I can give you is, âI donât knowââbut Iâll...
View ArticleScreening Quickly Through the Mutants
Here's another paper at the intersection of biology and chemistry: a way to check the activity of a huge number of mutated esterase enzymes, all at the same time. Protein engineering is a hot field, as...
View ArticleNew Ways to Fluorinate
There have been some neat ways to make fluorinated molecules reported recently, which I wanted to mention. We med-chemists just love our fluorines - as long as we don't have to use, like, fluorine...
View ArticleResearch Shows That A Pregnant Womanâs Diet Might Influence Babyâs Palate
Attention, pregnant women! The foods you eat now might influence your babies’ palates after they are born. New research published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that the fetus actually drinks...
View ArticleCould Your Swimming Pool Give You A Rash?
Allergic to Swimming? Weâre in the dog days of August and summer continues to hold on. What better way is there to relax than in your nice, cool pool? Unless youâre allergic to it, of course. I had...
View ArticleCrazy Shape-Shifting Bullvalenes
You don't hear much about bullvalene, outside of physical organic chemistry textbooks. It's a funny-looking symmetric tricyclic compound, which just seems to be another weirdo hydrocarbon until you...
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