Until recently, most chemotherapeutic drugs have targeted DNA, directly or indirectly, either by damaging the DNA or interfering with enzymes that repair or fold the DNA. The development of ...

For the first time an international team realized direct writing of silver nanostructures using an electron beam applied to a substrate. Silver nanostructures have the potential to concentrate visible ...

Scientists have taken a promising step toward the goal of generating a new source of clean energy, using little more than sunlight and water. Dr Zhiguo Yi from the Australian National University (ANU) ...

The Internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug -- and may have fewer side-effects.

There are few indications of silver toxicity in the human body, and clinical treatment poses only a minor risk. Silver is taken into the human body and circulates as a protein complex, which is then ...

Slipping bacteria some silver could give old antibiotics new life, scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University reported June 19 in Science ...

Created Cauldron Foods Ltd, one the first significant UK based vegetarian food manufacturing companies in 1980. Has wide experience in food manufacturing technology and in the development of special ...

WHILE trying to prepare co-ordination compounds of ethylenebidiguanine with bivalent silver analogous to Cu(II) and Ni(II) by oxidation of a silver salt by sodium persulphate, Ray and Ghosh 1 found ...

Discovered this one the hard way, and I was hoping to save a few more of you from discovering it the same way.<P>Chemtronix silver compound is pretty good stuff, especially since the "free sample" ...

When it comes to extremely fine, precise features, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) is unrivaled. A focused electron beam can directly deposit complex features onto a substrate in a single step ...