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rssRinging the changes: Environmental endocrine detection
Date: Mar 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Cyclodextrin, the natural starch ring molecule, can be used to create a sensitive coating on gold for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) detection of endocrine disrupters present in environmental water samples, according to a new study.
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Water, water everywhere: Even on the Moon
Date: Mar 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
An analysis of tiny mineral deposits from lunar anorthosites brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts adds new evidence to suggestions that water was not lost to space during the formation of the Moon. The analysis was carried out using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy.
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Journal Highlight: Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI of the human lung
Date: Feb 25, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The replacement of 3He by 129Xe as an MRI contrast agent is discussed with special reference to the evaluation of pulmonary structure and function.
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Journal Highlight: Unraveling the different proteomic platforms
Date: Feb 25, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
This review is addressed to scientists working outside the field of proteomics and highlights the latest proteomics strategies, including bottom-up and top-down platforms, qualitative and quantitative methods, and data validation.
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Journal Highlight: Ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared spectral analysis and chemometric tools for the discrimination of wines between subzones inside a controlled designation of origin: a case study of Rías Baixas
Date: Feb 18, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Chemometrics combined with ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared spectral analysis were evaluated to classify wines belonging to the controlled designation of origin (DO) Rías Baixas (Spain).
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Safety of implantable medical devices: Antioxidant breakdown products classified
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Author: Steve Down
Components related to antioxidants that leach out of implantable medical devices, like artificial joint inserts, have been identified and measured by GC/MS to check their safety credentials.
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Alcoholic proteomics: Ethanol effects on proteins in rat liver and serum
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Author: Steve Down
A dual approach to proteomics changes in the rat following a chronic alcohol diet has examined both serum and rat liver, revealing that only one protein was up-regulated in both matrices.
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Pablo Picasso: Decorator
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Author: David Bradley
What type of paint did one of the most renowned and infamous artists of the twentieth, century, Pablo Picasso, use in his work - matte, gloss or emulsion? The Art Institute of Chicago and scientists at Argonne National Laboratory think they know having used a hard X-ray nanoprobe to help them unravel what is a decades-long debate among art scholars.
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Wonderful webs: Elastic data analysed
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Author: David Bradley
The full range of elastic properties of an intact spider's web have been catalogued by researchers in the USA using the relatively uncommon technique of Brillouin spectroscopy. The research offers an intriguing picture not only of one of nature's most fascinating structures but might also point the way towards novel "bio-inspired" materials.
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Pores for thought: Just shine a light
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, among other techniques have been used in work on polymer pores. While, irradiation with light is a wel-established approach to the initiation of polymerization as well as cross-linking (or curing of polymers) during plastics production, researchers in the USA have now demonstrated that light can be used to retroactively increase the size of the pores within a polymer network.
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