Galera Therapeutics Secures Funding for New Cancer Treatment Drug Development Targets Side Effects of Cancer Treatment ST.

An Asian Journal , Wei-Shi Li, Takanori Fukushima, Takuzo Aida, and co-workers, based at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Riken , and the Japan Science and Technology Agency describe the rational design strategy using side-chain incompatibility of a covalently connected donor-acceptor dyad to synthesize organic p/n heterojunctions with ...

Joseph DeSimone has been appointed as an adjunct member at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Cancer Nanocenter.

High school chemistry students have been creating batteries and electric currents for generations, but SUNY Potsdam student John C. Proetta wants them to change their method.

As BP struggles to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an Indian-origin scientist from Texas University has created a special cotton fabric that can clean up crude oil up to 40 times its weight and help in cleaning efforts.

For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine -- the G in the four-letter code of life -- has proven to be a particular challenge.

Are they just vodka snobs, who pay $60 for a bottle of a "tasteless" beverage that can't possibly taste much different than its $6 counterpart? Or is there really a scientific basis for the differences that drinkers claim to taste in America's favorite hard liquor? Scientists are reporting the first identification of a chemical basis for people's ...

Reaction Design, the clean technology chemistry leader, today announced that the latest release of ENERGICO is bundled with detailed kinetic mechanisms for both gaseous and liquid fuels enabling substantially more accurate predictions of engine stability and emissions performance.

For a successful infection, bacteria must outwit the immune system of the host. To this aim, they deliver so-called virulence factors through a transport channel located in the bacterial membrane.

APPLETON - Lawrence University graduate Thomas Steitz, whose ribosome research has helped pave the way for the design of new antibiotics and earned him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, returned to his alma mater Sunday.

Abu Dhabi will spend money on financing a major Bahrain electric grid project. The Haseeb Haider project will receive from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development a loan that will be used to erect two electric transmission lines to meet the continuing increase in demand for electric power.

Vegetables stored in the dark refrigerator for days soon lose their nutrients and vitamins.

Pete's interview with Terry Maxwell is part of our ongoing series profiling the finest chefs in the area.

Methyl iodide could soon be legal to use as a soil fumigant for strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, peppers and other crops in California.

The Structural Genomics Consortium and Pfizer have announced that Pfizer will join the SGC-led public-private collaboration to generate small molecule inhibitors - "chemical probes" - for proteins involved in epigenetic signalling.

Steitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry last December in Stockholm, Sweden, along with Ada Yonath of Israel and American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

Myanmar has denied media reports that it is pursuing a nuclear weapons program and called the reports by foreign media "politically motivated" in a statement issued by the foreign ministry.

Marketing and snobbery aside, what drives some drinkers to reach for top-shelf vodka brands over more lowly "well" varieties? According to a team of Russian-American chemists, certain molecule clusters in vodka taste better than others.

The Karate Kid movie poster The only time a film critic doesn't mind being wrong is when a movie he/she expects to be lousy actually turns out to be very well done.

The selenium clock is ticking for mountaintop mining companies, as the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection prepares to crack down with water quality standards that producers have argued in the past are too expensive to meet.