Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome

Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific is a global medical device company, the 8th largest (based on annual sales, which were over $8 billion in 2010). It is the world's second largest maker of heart devices; prod...

Devices - medical, biotech, pharma

A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery.  Medical devices act by physical, mechanical, thermal, physico-chemical or chemic...

Enzymes - news, views, reports

Enzymes are proteins that catalyze (i.e., increase the rates of) chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into diff...

Cancer

Cancer (malignant neoplasm) is a class of disease. There are malignancy properties that cancer cells have;  1. The diseased tissue grows uncontrollably, ignoring growth arrest signals, ...

NRL develops polymer nanofibers for chemical and biological decontamination

(Naval Research Laboratory) Scientists in the Applied Concepts in Materials Section of the Chemistry Division are developing unique systems aimed at the spontaneous decontamination of a variety of mat...

Plastics Chemical BPA Found in Fetal Livers

THURSDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who found the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the livers of fetuses say it shows that there is considerable exposure to the chemical during pregnancy. T...

American Chemical Society resource connects scientists, discoveries, chemistry & biology interface

(American Chemical Society) The American Chemical Society's (ACS') Publications Division has introduced a new website, populated with survey data provided by over 4,000 scientists, to showcase connect...

Germany No.1 chemical exporter 2011

No other nation exports more chemicals. In 2011, German chemical companies sold chemical products worth over €150 billion euros to customers abroad. With a share of 11.2 percent in the global chemic...

Grades of Chemical Reagents

Grades of chemical reagents describe the sufficient purity for use in chemical reactions, chemical analysis, physical testing and various laboratory applications. Purity standards for reagents are set...

2013 economic outlook for global chemical industry

(American Chemical Society) The 2013 outlook for the global chemical industry -- a $3 trillion enterprise that impacts virtually every other sector of the economy -- is the topic of the cover story in...

American Chemical Society resource connects scientists, discoveries, chemistry & biology interface

The American Chemical Society's (ACS') Publications Division has introduced a new website, populated with survey data provided by over 4,000 scientists, to showcase connections among research subdisci...

Innovative semiconductor device researcher at NJIT to receive professional award

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) For innovative research on semiconductor devices, NJIT Professor Durgamadhab (Durga) Misra, the associate chair for graduate programs in the Newark College of Engi...

Solar water splitting cells.

Live-cell imaging of cellular proteins by a strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition.

Multifunctional nanoprobes for nanoscale chemical imaging and localized chemical delivery at surfaces and interfaces.

A BODIPY-Cyclooctyne for Protein Imaging in Live Cells.

The catalytic enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-liphagal.