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So, this was the dilemma I encountered this week at the day job.In my position at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, we give public “Meet the Scientist” talks twice daily in our iconic multimedia space called the SECU Daily...
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I’m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust ) sadly leaving CSIRO (http://www.csiro.au/) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia on Wed (but I plan to be back). This post is very brief and illustrates how far the semantic web has come in some...
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Every chemistry teacher has moments when students askodd questions. I had one such moment last week, when a student hung around after class to ask me what I knew about DMSO (yes organickers, that DMSO). A friend had recommended to her to use DMSO on a running-related...
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Former University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder appeared in court on Friday to begin his preliminary hearing on 17 felony charges relating to a January explosion in Synders campus apartment.The charges are for reckless disposal of hazardous waste,...

At a bail hearing on Friday for University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder, more details emerged about the case against him for alleged possession and intent to make destructive devices, reckless disposal of hazardous waste, and possession of firearms...
hexamethylene triperoxide diamine
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Former University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder appeared in court on Friday to begin his preliminary hearing on 17 felony charges relating to a January explosion in Synders campus apartment.The charges are for reckless disposal of hazardous waste,...

At a bail hearing on Friday for University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder, more details emerged about the case against him for alleged possession and intent to make destructive devices, reckless disposal of hazardous waste, and possession of firearms...

WATCH LIVE! Several local tv outlets will be live streaming (did stream) the controlled burn at 9am pacific time (noon eastern) 11am pacific (2pm eastern). I’ll be teaching class at that time, so someone let me know if it’s uneventful or, er, eventful.NBCCBSABCFOX—On...
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Former University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder appeared in court on Friday to begin his preliminary hearing on 17 felony charges relating to a January explosion in Synders campus apartment.The charges are for reckless disposal of hazardous waste,...

At a bail hearing on Friday for University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder, more details emerged about the case against him for alleged possession and intent to make destructive devices, reckless disposal of hazardous waste, and possession of firearms...

Tonight, we make soap.Matt over at Sciencegeist is organizing this blog carnival in an effort to reclaim the word chemical from the hands of ignorant people who blindly assume anything with chemicals in it must be evil. This is not a moment too soon. Im not...
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At a bail hearing on Friday for University of California, Davis, chemist David Snyder, more details emerged about the case against him for alleged possession and intent to make destructive devices, reckless disposal of hazardous waste, and possession of firearms...

XplA is a P450-flavodoxin fusion enzyme that mediates the metabolism of the military explosive RDX (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane) in Rhodococcus rhodochrous 11Y [1]. Bui et al. have conducted a detailed spectroscopic and crystallographic study of this unusual...
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ATC Code: C10AX11Wikipedia: Mipomersen On January 29st, the FDA approved Mipomersen (Tradename: Kynamro; Research Code: ISIS-310312), an oligonucleotide inhibitor of apolipoprotein B-100 (apo B-100) synthesis, indicated as an adjunct to lipid-lowering medications...
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ATC Code: C10AX11Wikipedia: Mipomersen On January 29st, the FDA approved Mipomersen (Tradename: Kynamro; Research Code: ISIS-310312), an oligonucleotide inhibitor of apolipoprotein B-100 (apo B-100) synthesis, indicated as an adjunct to lipid-lowering medications...
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2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging.Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing...