Stopping endocrine disruptors in their tracks - US scientists have come up with a system to assess whether chemists' latest synthetic product is an endocrine disruptor – a chemical that interferes with hormone regulation in animals and humans.(10.1039/c2gc35055f)
We don’t need no intuition | Chemistry World - US scientists have developed a way to solve crystal structures that combines powerful computational methods with data from experiments or databases – but that does not require much human input. Previous computational methods to predict structures rarely use experimental data, take a long time and are limited to compo unds with small unit cells. They also give structures that generally have lower symmetry than those which have been experimentally determined, suggesting that the answers may not be quite right.(10.1038/nmat3490)
Lego-like DNA bricks are child's play | Chemistry World - DNA building blocks have been pieced together to form a multitude of Lego-like bricks by researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. The bricks are nanoscopic but can be locked together like children's Lego blocks and have been used to create more than one hundred distinct shapes with complex surfaces, as well interiors with pores and tunnels.(10.1126/science.1227268)
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