Jun

30

Wikibooks

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Wikibooks. ‘Wikibooks is a collection of free instructional textbooks that are being written collaboratively by the readers of this web site. As an alternative to the proprietary model used by publishers of more expensive textbooks, Wikibooks uses the GNU Free Documentation License so that anyone may copy, modify, and reuse our textbooks. You can participate [...]

Jun

30

Organic Gel Nanomaterials

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials. ‘Researchers have created organic gel nanomaterials that could be used to encapsulate pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic products and to build 3-D biological scaffolds for tissue engineering. Using olive oil and six other liquid solvents, the scientists added a simple enzyme to chemically activate a sugar that changed the liquids [...]

Jun

30

Plastic from Fructose

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Just One Word: Fructose. ‘Plastic could be made from a common form of sugar instead of petroleum if the industry adopts a new process developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. With concern growing over America’s reliance on finite resources such as oil, there’s mounting pressure to develop renewable sources for traditionally [...]

Jun

26

e-Learning Guidebook

June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices. ‘This guidebook will help readers to systematically approach their engagement with e-learning, irrespective of the educational sector or level within which they may be working. The content of this guidebook has been carefully selected to enable readers to consider all the issues in relation to e-learning. Besides [...]

Jun

26

A New Biofuel: Biobutanol

June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Dupont, BP Set to Market Sugar Beet-Based Biofuel. ‘Chemical maker DuPont said Tuesday it will begin marketing biofuels for the transportation sector next year through a partnership with oil company BP plc. The companies said a collaboration they began in 2003 has advanced to the point where they plan to introduce butanol made from sugar [...]

Jun

23

The Physics Factbook

June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Physics Factbook ‘The Physics Factbookâ„¢ is an encyclopedia of scientific essays written by high school students that can be used by anybody. It is an exercise in library research methods in which students are sent out in search of a measurement with the intent of having them find more than just a number with [...]

Jun

23

New Molecular Entity (NME)

June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Integrating the Drug Discovery Laboratory. ‘Application of a rational approach to workflow automation can increase time for science. One of the many challenges biopharmaceutical companies face is improving the throughput of drug discovery. Despite vast sums of investment, the U.S. FDA in 2005 approved a total of 20 new molecular entities (NME), the same [...]

Jun

23

Teflon and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Dangers

June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Is Teflon Risky?. ‘The amazingly slippery, heat-resistant plastic known as Teflon was discovered purely by accident by DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett in 1938. In 1960 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it for use in cookware. Today some 60% of all pots and pans in American kitchens are nonstick - to say nothing of [...]

Jun

23

Pool Water Chemistry

June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Diving into chemistry. ‘Understanding the critical factors affecting pool water. Pool problems result from many factors, including chemistry variables, equipment malfunctions, or other upsets. Most common problems with pool water chemistry can be attributed to five factors: free available chlorine residual, total chlorine residual, pH, total alkalinity, or calcium hardness. Fortunately, each factor can be [...]

Jun

20

Exhibition - Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body

June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body. ‘Visible Proofs is about the history of forensic medicine. Over the centuries, physicians, surgeons, and other professionals have struggled to develop scientific methods that translate views of bodies and body parts into “visible proofs” that can persuade judges, juries, and the public.’
Education. ‘Three online activities and three lesson [...]

Jun

19

SPOT-NOSED: Biosensor (”Electronic Nose”) Detects Diseases

June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Hi-Tech Nose Sniffs Out Disease. ‘Doctors in the future may sniff patients with an electronic “nose” to detect telltale odors released as a result of disease and various other health conditions. The technology replicates — even improves on — human and other animal olfactory systems, according to a recent announcement made by the European Union [...]

Jun

19

Tripentones: Solubility Problem has a Nano Solution

June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Nanoparticles Overcome Solubility Limitations of Novel Anticancer Drug. ‘Ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to treat successfully, largely because drug resistance develops in a majority of patients. Medicinal chemists have responded to the challenge of overcoming drug resistance by creating a new class of drugs, known as tripentones, that show potent activity in tumor cell models [...]

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