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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, chemists who lived in former East Germany reflect on science then and now Sarah Everts Newscom CHANGEOVER The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

November 5, 2009 Powder Flow 2009 - Practice, Theory, Visualisation and Meaning is a one-day conference organised by The Formulation Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in partnership with Freeman Technology and in association with Dechema.

The Taking of Pelham 123: Denzel Washington and John Travolta face off in this remake of the 1974 thriller about a complex plot to hold a New York subway car up for ransom.

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

Fish and shellfish will soon get more protection from mercury and other toxins in the atmosphere that end up in U.S. waters.

Lawrence University's newest academic building will soon bear the name of 2009 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Steitz.

Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases.

Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $734,068 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new method for rapidly screening blood samples for biomarkers.

University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions.

Potent synthetic drugs proving hard to control as chemists produce alternatives quicker than authorities can ban them Spice Gold, a herbal drug soon to be banned in the UK.

Scientists are making progress toward development of an "artificial leaf" that mimics a real leaf's chemical magic with photosynthesis - but instead converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as methanol for cars and trucks.

Their study is scheduled for Nov./Dec. issue of ACS' Energy & Fuels, a bi-monthly publication.

One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties.

November 4 - The condemned sign on the front door of the house on Stennis Avenue in Ocean Springs is up after authorities say there was a bad combination in the house, lots of kids and meth labs.

This is Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This is a computer-generated image of the structure for C-reactive protein. Credit: S. Kolstoe, Center for Amyloidosis, University College, London, UK Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it's worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person at high risk of a heart attack circulating within a ...

It burns like marijuana, works like marijuana and it sort of looks like it, too.And its perfectly legal.Its called K2, and area police confirm that the little bags of dried herbs are starting to pop up among teens and young adults.Although it may be new on the local drug scene, K2 and similar brands have the attention of a Kansas lawmaker who said ...

Aspirin is one of the most effective drugs available for high body temperature, pain and other problems.

Zeolites are a fine lattice, a molecular sieve that can let molecules of a certain size pass while blocking others.

Warning: Chemicals in the packaging, surfaces or contents of many products may cause long-term health effects, including cancers of the breast, brain and testicles; lowered sperm counts, early puberty and other reproductive system defects; diabetes; attention deficit disorder, asthma and autism.