DSM Joins the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute(R)'s Pharmaceutical Roundtable.
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DSM Pharmaceutical Products today announced that they will join the Green Chemistry Institute(R) Pharmaceutical Roundtable (Roundtable) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) as an associate member. The Pharmaceutical Roundtable is a partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute(R) and pharmaceutical companies. The roundtable...

BASF Podcast: Chemistry Makes Wind Energy More Economic.
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In this podcast you will learn how chemistry improves the cost effectiveness of environmentally and climate friendly wind energy. It is generally less well known that modern wind turbines would hardly be conceivable without innovative solutions in chemistry. The huge rotor...

THE EVOLUTION OF DARWIN'S THEORY.
Byline: John Donovan For The Register-Guard What do the sciences of chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, biology, paleontology, anthropology and sociology all have in common? Not only are these diverse fields in broad and detailed agreement with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, many scientific explanations from...

ThalesNano Flow Reactor Realizes Microwave Speed With Scale-up Ability.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, LONDON and PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ThalesNano today announced a big step forward in the evolution of flow chemistry with the independent publication of results that prove that flow chemistry can match microwave chemistry in terms of speed, but with the ability to scale up...

Anavex scales up synthesis of ANAVEX 2-73 for Phase 1 Alzheimer's disease study.
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anavex Life Sciences Corp., ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) has signed an agreement with organic chemistry services provider Syntagon AB ("Syntagon") for the scale-up manufacturing of ANAVEX 2-73, its lead compound for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. ANAVEX 2-73 is scheduled to commence Phase 1...

Refractive index and fourier transform infrared spectra of virgin coconut oil and virgin olive oil.
INTRODUCTION Refractive index plays an important role in many branches of physics, biology and chemistry. Knowledge of the refractive index of aqueous solutions and oil is of crucial importance in applications of adulteration of oils and purity. Different methods have been developed to measure the refractive index...

Physicists slow, cool jittering molecules: laser's tickle unlocks ultracold realms.
By using precisely tuned lasers, physicists have nearly stopped molecules cold (SN: 12/20/08, p. 22). Usually molecules zip, spin and quiver with frenetic motion, giving structure and physical properties to nearly everything that exists. But by curbing molecules' internal and external motions, researchers hope to explore ultracold chemistry, quantum...

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ABAXIS Announces Launch of Two New Products at the NAVC.
Company will launch the VetScan(R) VSpro Coagulation Analyzer and VetScan Canine Heartworm Rapid Test at the largest Veterinary Conference in North America UNION CITY, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abaxis, Inc. , a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis instruments for both the medical and veterinary...

Lightwave Logic, Inc. Announces the Addition of Anthony J. Cocuzza, PhD to its Technology Team.
NEWARK, Del., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG - News; http://lightwavelogic.com/), a technology company focused on the development of electro-optic polymer materials for applications in high speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, announced today the addition of Anthony J. Cocuzza, PhD to our technology...