Category: The Buzz
In the use of immunopharmacotherapy to treat drug abuse, antigenic molecules are hitched to molecules of the drug to stimulate a future immune response against the drug itself; as DrugMonkey reported this week, a recently published paper offers hopeful evidence...
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Posted by Erin Johnson at 1:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
That was it, we're back. After six inspiring days in Lindau, the Nobel Laureates Meeting 2009 has ended. Eight authors blogged about it on ScienceBlogs Germany, plus we had further blogging guests such as PZ Myers, Bora Zivkovic and Seema...
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Posted by Jessica Ricco at 7:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
Phew. The fourth day in Lindau is about to end and I think I speak for everybody when I say extreme humidity is not exactly our favourite aggregate state concerning the weather in this town. Nevertheless we've had another great...
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Posted by Jessica Ricco at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
Ask an informed layman what he or she thinks is the greatest science-based industrial discovery or invention of all time and the person will likely name the computer, the transistor, the telephone, the incandescent light or perhaps even the blast...
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Posted by Jessica Ricco at 8:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
When the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald received the Nobel prize for his research on catalysis in 1909 he probably didn't expect that his field of work would still be one of the most important topics in modern chemistry one hundred years...
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Posted by Jessica Ricco at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
Annually focusing on a different discipline, the Nobel Laureates meet in Lindau (Southern Germany). This year's meeting is going to be about chemistry and we, the editors of ScienceBlogs.de will be covering all events along with seven blogging scientists. Although...
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Posted by Jessica Ricco at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Pre-game prognosticators are pointing out some things for you to consider going into the main event. Will they help you figure out who will win? Maybe. Will they make you smile? One can only hope."
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Category: Announcement
Since moving to New York, I've been having trouble breathing. Is city air pollution to blame?
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Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientists
Gather 'round, dear readers, and let me regale you with the sad saga of the late, great Linus Pauling.
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Posted by Lee Billings at 8:45 AM • 5 Comments • 2 TrackBacks