Chemistry

This Week in Clinical Chemistry

6 Feb 2012

In a review in Clinical Chemistry , Stanford Hospital and Clinics Clinical Laboratory's Sharon Geaghan looks at the state of fetal laboratory testing . Geaghan writes that the invasiveness of fetal diagnostics varies, and that the specimens must be able to be determined as from a fetal origin.

Quantum biology and Ockham's razor

6 Feb 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper just published in Nature Chemistry, a team of University of Bristol scientists explores whether new models or concepts are needed to tackle one of the 'grand challenges' of chemical biology: understanding enzyme catalysis.

Chemistry Information Centre Berlin (FIZ CHEMIE) Up For Sale

5 Feb 2012

The public sector shareholders of Berlin's Chemistry Information Centre FIZ CHEMIE GmbH are putting their shares up for sale. It provides chemical data and abstracts for scientific and industrial communities both on paper and electronically. Main shareholders are the German Federal Government and the State of Berlin, with industry associations being minority shareholders whose shares are ...