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Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastic Without the use of Fossil Fuels
(24 Nov 2009)
A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, which may now allow ...
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New look for antiques
(02 Nov 2009)
Paintings and gilt surfaces can be effectively and gently restored with water-based microemulsions
In the past, restoration of paintings and other old artwork often involved application of acrylic resins to consolidate and protect them. One of the most important tasks for modern restorers is thus to remove these layers, because it turns out that ...
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Is trash the solution to tackling climate change?
(02 Oct 2009)
Waste-based biofuel could cut global emissions by over 80 percent
Converting the trash that fills the world's landfills into biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions, claim scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. New research published in Global Change Biology: ...
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Pioneering research succeeds in producing industrially vital chemical through engineered bacteria
(28 Aug 2009)
Metabolic engineering could herald the end of fossil fuels in industrial chemical production
A team of South Korean scientists have succeeded in engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce the industrial chemical putrescine. The research, published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, provides a renewable alternative to the ...
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Reveal the enemy
(23 Jul 2009)
Carbon nanotubes and aptamers: New biosensor detects extremely low bacteria concentrations quickly, easily and reliably
Bacterial diseases are usually detected by first enriching samples, then separating, identifying, and counting the bacteria. This type of procedure usually takes at least two days after arrival of the sample in the laboratory. Tests that work ...
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Biomass as a source of raw materials
(19 May 2009)
New process for obtaining alkanes from bio-oil
For the protection of the environment, and because of the limited amount of fossil fuels available, renewable resources, such as specially cultivated plants, wood scraps, and other plant waste, are becoming the focus of considerable attention. ...
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Progress toward artificial tissue?
(19 May 2009)
Soft and tough like biological tissue: DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes
For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature. However, the tissue in our bodies has a combination of traits that are very hard to recreate ...
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4-in-1
(12 May 2009)
Targeted gene suppression in cancer cells
Diagnosis and treatment in one go: Korean researchers led by Tae Gwan Park and Jinwoo Cheon have developed the basis for a four-in-one agent that can detect, target, and disable tumor cells while also making them macroscopically and microscopically ...
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Ahead of the games: Test will catch sports cheats on new endurance drugs
(09 Jan 2009)
Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has ...
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Mineral oil contamination in humans: A health problem?
(27 Nov 2008)
From a quantitative standpoint, mineral oil is probably the largest contaminant of our body. That this contaminant can be tolerated without health concerns in humans has not been proven convincingly. The current Editorial of the European Journal of ...
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