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Print your own chemistry set…
Toxic snails and novel painkillers
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Sciencebase Science Blog - 2 new articles

Print your own chemistry set…

A 3D printer and some silicone is all you need to revolutionise chemistry by making the reaction vessel a part of the experiment itself. More details in this week’s Nature Chemistry. Tell the laboratory glassblower to hang up their face guard and shut the door on their way out…

Reflecting on Feynman fun Why does a mirror swap your left and right, but not your top and bottom? The late, great Dick Feynman ...
The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion years of volcanic activity and meteoric ...
Ph Diva and the Mystery Band We already had Ph.Diddy...now we have Ph.Diva - Three weeks left to the conference deadline but on the gel is ...
Danny Shechtman discusses quasicrystals Danny Shechtman discovered quasicrystals in 1982. They produce a sharp diffraction pattern like other crystals, but they have fivefold symmetry, ...
I can haz kwontumz Kittehs luv physiks. Didn't you know? Quantum superposition as postulated by Schrodinger. I wonder what Pavlov and his dog would've made ...

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Toxic snails and novel painkillers

Conotoxins from the predatory cone snail work even at very low levels to block nerve signals. Now, researchers in Germany have investigated the structures of one specific conotoxin with a view to developing the compound, or its derivatives, as a new type of painkiller. Despite being snail-derived, I assume they’d offer fast-acting relief nevertheless.

More details in my SpectroscopyNOW column today.

Science, spectroscopy and stuff My latest SpectroscopyNOW column goes live today. Four items: Cheminformatics and TB, laser spectroscopy and graphene, 'shroom doom and enmeshed ...
Gone chemical fishing The latest issue of my column on SpectroscopyNOW is online this week, reporting on Euro chemists who have used a ...
Drugs to treat hepatitis C on the way Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a chronic infectious disease that afflicts some 170 million people worldwide, causing chronic liver disease ...
Hands off spectroscopy A new dual laser approach to analysing chemicals shouldn't require the sample to be prepped and placed in the spectrometer. ...
Copper helps out in protein studies Researchers have developed a novel solid-state NMR spectroscopic method that uses paramagnetic tags to help them visualize the shape of ...

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