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ChemSpy.com is owned and operated by science journalist David Bradley. Additional chemistry news updates are posted by chemist Robert Slinn CChem MRSC MPhil with the tag: Slinn Pickings.
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Slinn PickingsFlow electrodes may enable large-scale sea water desalination | Chemistry World
March 29, 2013 – 4:00 pm
Copycat flags help aliens avoid mouse immune system
February 22, 2013 – 9:16 am
My latest news item for Chemistry World
Synthetic peptide flags added to therapeutic and diagnostic agents can trick the immune system into ignoring them, according to US researchers. The peptides emulate the properties of the protein markers that classify cells as self rather than ‘alien so they are not consumed by white blood cells.
via Copycat flags help aliens avoid mouse immune system | Chemistry World.
Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA? | Chemistry World
January 27, 2013 – 4:05 pm
Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA? | Chemistry World - For billions of years DNA has been life’s data storage medium. Now, scientists have used DNA to code and store their media and information, from all of Shakespeare’s sonnets to an audio recording of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.(10.1038/nature11875)
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