MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'american chemical society'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:52:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4424396&cid=t_172907_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F31%2Fyale-university-scientists-synthesize-long-sought-after-anticancer-agent%2F A team of Yale University scientists has synthesized for the first time a chemical compound  called “lomaiviticin aglycon, ” which led to the development of a new class of molecules that appear to target and destroy cancer stem cells. A team of Yale University scientists has synthesized for the first time a chemical compound called [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4424396 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:25:18 +0100 4424396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152271&cid=t_172907_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FPN1cDZXQRcw%2F Long time passing? The lament is a take-off on an old Pete Seeger song, but one might get the impression the refrain is appropriate after viewing a new summary of compounds presented at the recent American Chemical Society meeting in Boston. The latest gathering yielded presentations for 58 new drug candidates but, by one reckoning, the amount of innovation on display was lacking. Specifically, not one previously unidentified drug target was reported at ACS, which was held in August, according to Citeline Drug Intelligence, a market research firm that tracked the presentations. What was on display? Central nervous system compounds ranked highest, with 23 candidates, followed by 16 for metabolic diseases and just eight for oncology. This, by the way, stands in contrast to previous years whe... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152271 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:01:41 +0100 4152271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899391&cid=t_172907_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Felectrify-a-potato-boost-its-antioxidants%2F2010.08.24 Antioxidants are important substances that prevent free radicals from damaging cells, and potatoes contain substantial amounts of them. However, researchers from Obihiro University in Japan thought that more would be better and have developed some innovative methods of boosting the potato’s antioxidant content. By immersing the potatoes in water or salt and subsequently applying ultrasound or electricity for 5 to 30 minutes, they increased the amounts of antioxidants by as much as 50 percent. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899391 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:00:04 +0100 3899391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1288690&cid=t_172907_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fcas-numbers-are-not-public-domain-are.html "Work created before the existence of copyright and patent laws also form part of the public domain. The Bible and the inventions of Archimedes are in the public domain. However, copyright may exist in translations or new formulations of this work." [Wikipedia]As posted by Tony is the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) discouraging using their CAS services for assigning correct CAS numbers to structures for any third party database. Wikipedia is a source of structures, which is public domain due to its GNU FDL. Still, this does not imply that any translation of structures, e.g. CAS numbers, are in the public domain, too. Honestly, this raises a serious problem for curating CAS numbers on Wikipedia and this raises indeed the question, if they should not be dropped from Wikipedia, and any other... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1288690 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:00:00 +0100 1288690