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Physicist Jens Hummelshøj, pictured with his iPhone, working with fellow researchers at the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, at Stanford, and has developed an app that displays reaction and activation energies on catalytic metal surfaces, while quickly predicting how fast and completely the catalyzed reaction will proceed.
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Register today for AIChE’s Online Career Fair and begin to search through job postings and apply for positions now, before the online event takes place on March 20-21, 2012.
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Good news for stem-cell therapy: a paper reports that two subjects in a clinical trial have each safely received injections of embryonic stem cells into an eye.
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Huber’s research team can take wood, grasses, or any other renewable biomass and create five of the six petrochemicals that serve as the building blocks for the chemical industry. And he’s just made another major breakthrough.
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The AIChE Spring Meeting is the year’s key technical conference for practicing chemical engineers. A wide range of subjects relevant to the current needs of industry is covered. Plus, the Global Congress on Process Safety covers the critical needs of process safety practitioners.
Early Bird Registration Ends February 13!
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The anti-cancer drug Zelboraf (vemurafenib) recently received FDA approval, but it was front page news when the drug, designed to disrupt malignant melanoma, was so successful that human trials were halted so all of the patients could be moved to the new medicine.
Much of the drug’s research took place at the […]
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Professors David Valentine and Igor Mezic have developed a new computer model that demonstrates the roles of underwater topography, currents and bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico led to the disappearance of the methane and other chemicals that had spewed from the well after it erupted on April 20, 2010.
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Cubelets are a robotic construction kit according to the company that created them, Modular Robotics. Modular Robotics has put together a good video (viewable in the panel to the right) explaining how cubelets work.
What’s curious about the video is that Modular Robotics uses a “Dutch Mountain Man” to explain cubelets. It’s quite well done, actually, and somewhat funny. But I started to think about how peculiar this was, mostly because there are no mountains in the Netherlands to speak of.
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Drew Berry, a 2010 MacArthur fellow, is a biomedical animator who creates scientifically accurate and stunning animations to illustrate how molecules in our cells move and interact. At the TEDxSydney conference, in May of 2011, Drew Berry showcased his animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.
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If you’re a ChEnected reader, you know that social media can be a helpful resource in your professional life – not to mention a fun way to connect with family and friends in your leisure hours.
CEP’s January edition takes a look at how ChE’s are using social media in“Getting Started […]
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The anti-cancer drug Zelboraf (vemurafenib) recently received FDA approval, but it was front page news when the drug, designed to disrupt malignant melanoma, was so successful that human trials were halted so all of the patients could be moved to the new medicine.
Much of the drug's research took place at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. Plexxikon, a Berkeley-based drug-discovery company, used the labs’ powerful X-ray facilities to determine the precise structure of a mutated protein involved in this cancer, as well as to identify potential drug candidates that could stop its spread.
(Later, to showcase its technology, SLAC made a video with another client, drug maker Cocrystal Discovery Inc. represented by Dave Bushnell, a scientist from the startup .View it in the right-hand window.)
The researchers screen hundreds of small molecules and identify the most promising ones. Then they bind each to the target protein, crysatalize the bound pair, and study it with powerful beams of x-rays, which scatter of the atoms in the crystal and reveal its 3-D structure. Molecules that look promising are then tweaked to improve their performance, and then undergo rigorous trials.
information on how a drug interacts with its protein target. It points us in the most productive directions, enabling a small chemistry team to generate new drug candidates quickly.”
Macromolecular crystallography is a rapidly growing activity. Six of SSRL’s 30 beamlines host a large number of such projects each year. Worldwide, scientists are using more than 130 X-ray synchrotron beamlines to study biological molecules. X-ray crystallography was used to determine some 87 percent of the nearly 74,000 structures submitted to date to the Protein Data Bank, the worldwide repository for 3-D structure information on large biological molecules, and the vast majority of those used synchrotron X-rays.
CEP’s January edition takes a look at how ChE’s are using social media in “Getting Started in Social Media”. Whether you are a veteran or relative novice at social media, I’m sure you will find new ideas, insights or useful tips in this article. Learn more.
