Captain Planet and the Cobalt Anode, written 3 days ago, As many of you know, Dan Nocera recently published a paper in Science magazine in which he and a postdoc report a cobalt anode for dioxygen evolution that they operated at pH 7 (Source).  The media blitz that followed was resounding: sources ...

Chemistry World: Platencin, written 1 day ago, Latest piece for the RSC in the September issue of Chemistry World…

About organic science, chemistry, chemical history and more nonsense.

It's Party Time, written 1 week ago, So, do you think this will encourage more kids to learn chemistry? I don't know but it is pretty cute.

Samurai! Unleash Your Drug Candidates!, written 2 days ago, Today's ration of scientific confusion comes courtesy of Wired, in an article that talks about using a modified form of TMV (tobacco mosaic virus) for delivering silencing RNAs. A group at Maryland has used the virus to deliver various siRN...

Stem Cell gets green light to continue trial, written 1 day ago, A Data Safety Monitoring Board has given Stem Cell Therapeutics the go-ahead to continue with the Phase IIb trial of Regenesis, a medication designed to improve recovery after an acute ischemic stroke. Stem Cell Therapeutics release

Re-purposed Pain, written 16 hours ago, [This column appeared in the Catholic Standard & Times on 4 September 2008.] Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.Col. 1:24"O...

It's the most wonderful time of the year...., written 1 week ago,

Chemistry World's weekly round-up of money and molecules, written 1 day ago, In this week's Chemistry World business news round-up, we cover the escape from Hurricane Gustav, warnings over the Vytorin cancer risk, and hydrogen power in Europe's cars. Chemical Industry Gustav weathered: Chemical faci...

Radio reminder, written 4 hours ago, At 9am Sunday on Atheists Talk radio, it's me! I'll be telling you all about My Summer Vacation, my trip to the Galápagos. Tune in and call in! Afterwards, at 11, we'll be meeting for brunch at Q. Cumbers — stop by if you're in the area and s...

BASF Launches Organozinc Product Line, written 19 hours ago, Eurogiant BASF recently announced the launch of their new organozinc halide capability. BASF is offering a portfolio of organozinc halide reagents on the strength of a licensing agreement with Rieke Metals of Lincoln, Nebraska. The value ...

Interview with Forensic Genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. Part II, written 3 days ago, Yesterday I posted the first part of a two-part interview with Colleen Fitpatrick, a forensic genealogist.  In that interview, we discussed Colleen's participation in a project to identify the remains locate...

Vaccination doesn't cause autism volume what-are-we-up-to-now?, written 3 days ago, Oh, let's go back to the start... --Coldplay, "The Scientist" A decade ago, a paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was published in The Lancet, detailing the cases of 12 children with autism spectrum di...

Oxymetazoline (No more hobo eyes!), written 3 days ago, Oxymetazoline is yet another arylethylamine: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

The next step, written 2 days ago, This may come as a shock to some of you but grad school has flown by.  The light at the end of the tunnel… it's bright and glowie.  I'm getting ready to write the last 3 papers and most likely won't see everything I've done published.  I'm not disappointed in ...

Comment 4 (Materials Girl: Flights of fancy), written 1 day ago, Lab hands are one thing, and arguably easier to develop than a solid understanding of the science involved...there are amazing theoreticians out there. I don't care if they're useless at the bench--I'm completely in awe of their work.

OC Coming Back, written 3 weeks ago, We will come back with the addition of new topics including organocatalysis, polymer, and etc.

Drug information for ordinary people in PubMed, written 4 days ago, PubMed is an on-line database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) that contains information from scientific literature. Most of the information is related to medical research. To search PubMed, you use a prog...

Molecule of the Month: Ribonuclease A, written 4 days ago, Ribonuclease A is the enzyme that digests RNA in our food. Because is it small, stable, and easily purified, ribonuclease has been an important enzyme in biochemical research. It was used by Christian Anfinsen to prove that the sequence of a...

Heading to Dayton, TN, written 1 day ago, In stunning news, a Darwin-shaped wall stain has been reported at the former site of the Scopes Trial. The image has driven evolutionists into a scientific fervor. "I have never felt closer to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f...