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Health and Medicinal Chemistry Resources

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Health, Safety & Medicinal Chemistry. ‘This is a collection of resources for chemistry as it relates to health and medicine. You’ll find facts on toxic chemicals and dangerous mixtures. Information on pharmacology and safety is also provided.’

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Sugar Alternatives

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Sweet Chemistry: Symposium Explores Sugar Alternatives, Science Of Taste. ‘In an effort to fight high rates of diabetes and obesity, chemists are exploring a variety of sugar alternatives – including new artificial sweeteners and non-calorie sweetness enhancers – to satisfy America’s demand for sweet flavor with fewer health risks.’ Table of Sugar and Sugar Alternatives. [...]

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Exhibition: History of Chocolate

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Chocolate: Political Tool of Italy’s Medicis. ‘The Medicis, the family that dominated the Italian Renaissance, used chocolate as a powerful political tool to impose the Florentine taste in European courts, according to an exhibition that traces the history of chocolate from its arrival to Europe in the 16th century.’

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The Importance of Oxygen

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Oxygen’s Gift. ‘A grand plot point in the history of life was the center-stage entry of oxygen into the atmosphere roughly 2.2 billion years ago. At the time, oxygen was a waste gas that emanated from the bacterial innovators of photosynthesis and posed mortal hazards to the anaerobic life that had been evolving for more [...]

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Nanotubes Computer Modelling

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Computer model maps strengths, weaknesses of nanotubes. ‘In theory, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but in practice, scientists have struggled make nanotubes that live up to those predictions, in part, because there are still many unanswered questions about how nanotubes break and under what conditions. Because nanotubes are single molecules – about [...]