October is the month where excitement runs through the science community, as people look forward to hearing the announcement of winners for the Nobel Prizes. Each year, Chem-Station staff writes an ...
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How glow sticks are made
Glow sticks contain chemical substances, which emit light when they are mixed together. This phenomenon is called chemiluminescence. Glow sticks are known under the product names such as Cyalume and ...
Performing Asymmetric Catalysis with Thiyl Organocatalysts
An efficient catalyst that is cheap, air and moisture tolerant, with no toxicity…. The development of such a catalyst would merit, at the very least, candidacy for the Nobel prize in Chemistry. Over ...
Monowave300, a new Microwave Reactor
Those reactions that just won’t proceed…Can’t I brute force this to go? If you’re pondering the above question, then there may be an interesting solution for you. On this post I’d like to ...
The “poison gases” inside you
What do you imagine when you hear the word “poison gases”? I suppose you thought about things such as chemical weapons and volcanic gases, which are dangerous and are substances that you would rather ...
The Divide Between Citizens and Scientists as Revealed by the STAP Cell Issue (Part 1 of 2)
For a moment, the world was astonished. But looking beyond the surface, it was something that was not clear. The STAP Cell fever[1] is an issue that has cast the spotlight on the problems that ...
Installing artificial nucleotide base pairs in DNA 2
In a previous post, we discussed the myriad applications of artificial nucleotide base pairs. In this post, I’d like to highlight an exquisite example that was demonstrated by Hirao and coworkers at ...
Installing artificial nucleotide bases in DNA
[su_dropcap] It[/su_dropcap] is common knowledge that genetic information of organisms is encoded in DNA in the form of sequential interactions of merely four nucleotide bases, Adenine(A), ...
Open Access Journals: The Light and Dark Sides
Merry Christmas! Nope, this blog post has nothing to do with Christmas… In another one of my posts written recently (Japanese only), I talked about a mysterious incident revolving around ...