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Getting enough vitamin B1 in your diet is essential for maintaining a healthy body.

Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity.

AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry is a global producer of cationic, nonionic, anionic and amphoteric surfactants.

This time lapse mosaic shows Curiosity maneuvering the robotic arm to drill into her 2nd rock target named "Cumberland" to collect powdery Martian material on May 19, 2013 for analysis by her onboard chemistry labs; SAM & Chemin.

Albert Dukes III had a hard time choosing between chemistry and physics. In the end, he went with chemistry, because it was "more hands-on, and more applicable in terms of benefiting you in life." The nanocrystal research that he is doing at Lander, where he has taught since earning a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2011, is a perfect example ... (more)

Replacing a single aspartate residue in this cyclic peptide with an alanine produces a potent inhibitor of quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus .

In the idealistic educational strategy that Salman Khan spelled out Monday evening to an enthralled audience at the University of New Orleans , students learn at their own pace from the thousands of YouTube videos his enterprise has turned out for a worldwide audience on everything from art history to organic chemistry to differential calculus.

In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, scientists started thinking about the protein complement of the genome, and proteomics-the identification and characterization of all of an organism's proteins-was born.

The Eames Molded Plastic Chair, created by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, is perhaps the epitome of the celebrated couple's design process-a philosophy characterized by a journey of exploration, evolution, insight and delight.

Safety in academic and other nonindustrial chemical research laboratories will be the focus of a yearlong investigation by a National Academy of Sciences committee, which held its first meeting last week in Washington, D.C. The study will consider how safe lab practices can be promoted in academic and government labs, explained H. Holden Thorp, ... (more)

A new A 23million research unit is announced today, that will exploit the latest advances in genetics to improve understanding of how changes to lifestyle or environment, as well as pharmacological interventions, can reduce the risk of disease.

ERBA products are employed in tests and analyses related to autoimmune and infectious diseases, diabetes and blood chemistry.

Video Caption: This JPL video shows the complicated choreography to get drill samples to Curiosity's instruments as she prepares for 2nd drilling at "Cumberland." See where "Cumberland" is located in our panoramic photo mosaic below.

A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth.

With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

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In April, National Geographic News published a story about the letter in which scientist Francis Crick described DNA to his 12-year-old son.

The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth , but in similar oases that may exist on Mars , the scientists who studied the water said.

The roots of Longmont's Zometool date back decades, but the company has undergone a transformation in recent years.

President Mitch Daniels isn’t the only one at Purdue University on a quest to save money at the West Lafayette campus.