The News Review:
- Industrial Biotechnology and Green Chemistry from a Life Cycle…
- Agriculture Changing Chemistry f Mississippi River
- RCK program rolls into schools | Helps spark interest in the sciences
- New method enables design production of extremely novel drugs
- New Compounds Could Combat Tuberculosis And Malaria
- Low-cost ‘Green’ Way To Make Antimicrobial Paints Developed
Industrial Biotechnology and Green Chemistry from a Life Cycle…
fona – Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit – Jan 24, 2008
For instance the recently adopted REACH (registration evaluation and authorisation of chemicals) regulation1 demands all produced or imported chemicals be registered and tested while the Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive prohibits or restricts the use of the most dangerous chemicals in electronic equipment. Quelle: Europ?che Kommission12.
Agriculture Changing Chemistry f Mississippi River
CattleNetwork.com – Jan 24, 2008
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). “It’s like the discovery of a new large river being piped out of the corn belt” said Peter Raymond lead author of the study and an ecologist at Yale University. “Agricultural practices have significantly changed the hydrology and chemistry of the Mississippi. The research team analyzed Mississippi River data as much as 100 years old.
RCK program rolls into schools | Helps spark interest in the sciences
Tribune-Democrat – The Tribune-Democrat – Jan 24, 2008
FRANCIS UNIVERSITY CHEMISTRY PRFESSRService learning a teaching method that intentionally engages a student while also fulfilling a community need is present all across the St. Francis University curriculum. The Rural utreach Chemistry for Kids (RCK) program focused on the sciences is one such program. The mission of RCK is to provide free hands-on science activities to local K-12 students in order to spark interest in the sciences. The service-learning requirement for many St. Francis students mandates that they serve as facilitators for a RCK event helping K-12 students complete a science activity. At first many of the St… Francis students are nervous worried about their science knowledge and worried about how to teach the information to younger students. However once in the classroom the college students adapt quickly and get involved. In addition to cementing their chemistry knowledge during a RCK event St. Francis students have the opportunity to sharpen their verbal communication skills. This practice is of particular importance to allied health majors as health-care professionals must often deal with stressed patients. They must quickly put the patients at ease and work to solve health-care issues. For the science majors the communication of science topics to a broad audience is an important skill especially for preservice educators.
New method enables design production of extremely novel drugs
News-Medical.net – Jan 24, 2008
The chemistry the basis of a new biotech startup company called Dirhodium Technologies LLC in Buffalo has the potential to improve dramatically the design and production of new drugs based on small molecule organic compounds which comprise the great majority of new drug applications. “If you tend to make things by methods that have been around for 100 years there’s a decent chance that you’ll make something that’s already known or is very close to something that is” said Huw M.
New Compounds Could Combat Tuberculosis And Malaria
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jan 24, 2008
24 2008) — University of Navarra PhD in chemistry researcher Esther Vicente has discovered new compounds active for treating tuberculosis and malaria. Her thesis defended at the Faculty of Sciences in her home city of Pamplona the capital of Navarre describes the synthesis and characterisation of 65 derivatives of quinoxaline the structure of which is similar to a number of antimalalarial and antituberculosis pharmaceutical drugs currently on the market. f the molecules prepared four stand out for their antimalalarial activity and 15 for their antituberculosis activity. See also: Health & MedicineInfectious DiseasesMalariaTuberculosisMatter & Energyrganic ChemistryChemistryThermodynamics Reference… Amongst these molecules four stand out – the most selective – and these continue to be studied in vivo at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Also the important in vitro antituberculosis work under cytotoxicity and good selectivity of fifteen of these molecules make them new leader compounds in the TAACF programme; thus in-depth studies are being carried out on them at the University of Illinois and at the Colorado State University both in the USA. In her thesis Esther Vicente also describes a Computational Chemistry study which she drew up at the Instituto de Investigación en Fisicoquímica Teórica y Aplicada (INIFTA) in La Plata Argentina. Here using various computer programmes she designed a theoretical model to estimate if a compound could be potentially active a tool that could prove to be highly useful in the design of new structures active against forgotten diseases. Adapted from materials provided by.
Low-cost ‘Green’ Way To Make Antimicrobial Paints Developed
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jan 24, 2008
However coatings containing antimicrobial agents have failed commercially in the past due to their complex multi-step preparation methods and high cost of production. George John Professor of Chemistry at CCNY and lead author of the article. Polyunsaturated hydrocarbons undergo auto-oxidation-induced cross-linking which is similar to lipid peroxidation the process by which fatty acids are oxidized in biological systems. During this process a variety of chemically active species called ‘free radicals’ are generated.