Contact lenses powered by the wearer's tears can detect glucose levels and so might be used for continual monitoring of patients with diabetes
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BN Against Cancer
Nanotubes made from boron nitride can be used to package up pharmaceutical for targeted chemotherapy against cancer
Gut Feeling for Obesity Treatment
Newly synthesized benzimidazole-type compounds work directly in the gut rather than circulating in the blood to lower triglycerides
How to Determine a Reaction's Usefulness
A way to analyze novel organic reactions and determine whether they will have wide or limited utility in organic syntheses has been developed
Portable TB Detector
A device for the genetic detection of pathogenic bacteria has emerged from microfluidics research coupled with NMR spectroscopy
Life on the Rocks
Did life orginiate from a comet's impact? Latest MD simulations reveal an impact synthesis mechanism for important prebiotic heterocycles
Bravo for Brevisamide
Chemists in India have devised a formal stereoselective synthesis of the unprecedented, marine monocyclic ether alkaloid (–)-brevisamide
Stronger Metals through Narrow Grain Distribution
Narrowing the distribution of grain sizes in nickel-titanium thin films could make them stronger
Oxidizing Water with Superhalogens?
Superhalogens, inorganic entities with extraordinarily high electron affinities, could theoretically ionize water clusters
Opening up Hybrid Cages
A solvent and temperature driven self assembly of nanoscopic coordination cages with uranium ions at their heart has been developed