While melamine in the mainstream media seems to have quietened down in the last few days, there are still a few of us in the blogosphere attempting to unravel the tangle.I first reported in my melamine in milk article (September 17) how the news broke...
Topics: Environment, food, Science, toxins

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The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now online. In this issue, having sampled a little cannabis chemistry last month, I turned to cocaine, and enzymes to beat addiction, and new techniques for testing the purity, or otherwise of street...
Topics: addiction, chemistry, Science, spectroscopy

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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Osamu Shimomura (b. 1928) of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), at Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie (b. 1947) of Columbia University, New York, and Roger.
Topics: chemistry, nobel prizes, Science

{"title":"Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008","post_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencebase.com\/science-blog\/nobel-prize-for-chemistry-2008.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SciencebaseScienceBlog","author":"sciencebase","date":"2008-10-08 01:40:26","summary":"The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Osamu Shimomura (b. 1928) of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), at Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie (b. 1947) of Columbia University, New York, and Roger."}

Sciencebase readers following the melamine story and concerned about melamine contaminated foods, will hopefully be interested in the latest expert opinion on the scandal.Roberta Weiss, a nephrologist (kidney doctor) emailed to provide Sciencebase...
Topics: Health, Science, toxins

{"title":"Melamine and Kidney Failure","post_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencebase.com\/science-blog\/melamine-and-kidney-failure.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SciencebaseScienceBlog","author":"sciencebase","date":"2008-10-07 08:00:08","summary":"Sciencebase readers following the melamine story and concerned about melamine contaminated foods, will hopefully be interested in the latest expert opinion on the scandal.Roberta Weiss, a nephrologist (kidney doctor) emailed to provide Sciencebase..."}

Most internet users will be unaware and unconcerned by the computer science and technology that underpins their daily web surfing, emails, chats, and Twitter updates. But, there are, of course, thousands of incredibly bright people working behind the...
Topics: computing, internet, Science, security

{"title":"Mobile Internet Insecurities","post_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencebase.com\/science-blog\/mobile-internet-insecurities.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/SciencebaseScienceBlog","author":"sciencebase","date":"2008-10-06 05:00:41","summary":"Most internet users will be unaware and unconcerned by the computer science and technology that underpins their daily web surfing, emails, chats, and Twitter updates. But, there are, of course, thousands of incredibly bright people working behind the..."}