Dr Ashby's Chemistry Pages

Stem-cell treatment helps restore eye-sight

Dr Ashby — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:21:28 +0000

Six blind patients have had their eye-sight restored after undergoing pioneering stem cell transplants.

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

Dr Ashby — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:20:46 +0000

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Using genetically modified bugs for

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Harvard Team Creates the World’s 1st Synthesized Cells

Dr Ashby — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:18:17 +0000

A single cell is the most awesomely sophisticated molecular machine yet produced. A self-directing, self-replicating micro-factory capable of complex constructions, automated repair and even (like all good sci-fi-sounding devices) self-destruct. The first cells, however, were much less “complex mechanisms” and significantly more “Shake and Bake”

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Honda makes first hydrogen cars

Dr Ashby — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:16:32 +0000

The Japanese car manufacturer Honda has begun the first ever commercial production of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.

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Astronomers find ‘super-Earths’

Dr Ashby — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:15:51 +0000

Researchers today said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.

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Professor Stephen Hawking to present NASA Lecture Series

Dr Ashby — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:44:02 +0000

When you think of Black Holes and Baby Universes, that is Hawking. An opportunity of a lifetime to be able to watch this lecture on NASA TV – Free!

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