ANEMIA unexpectedly occurred in all 6 members of an expedition conducting a scientific exploration of the central Greenland Ice Cap in the spring and summer of 1955. 1 This unusual response in the ...

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

Many different mechanisms have been suggested for the oxidative lipid fragmentations that produce biologically active aldehydes such as 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE), oxononanoyl phosphatidylcholine ...

Can eating fat be good for us? Some fatty acid molecules actually play a crucial role in maintaining our health and cellular functions. By the early twentieth century, scientists and doctors ...

A 14-year-old girl may have suffered life-changing injuries after a suspected acid attack injured three people - including a teacher - outside a school in west London. Police said they were ...

A 14-year-old girl has been left with life-changing injuries after a masked man on an e-scooter attacked her and a 16-year-old boy with acid on their way home from school. Detectives said they ...

Amino acid molecules are made of four main elements. You may remember them from science class: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. These elements form the same amino acid structure.

The attack happened at Westminster Academy in central London (Picture: Getty Images Europe) A suspected acid attack at a Westminster school has left a 14-year-old girl with ‘life-changing ...

Neutralisation is the reaction of an acid with a base that results in the pH moving towards 7. It is a useful process that occurs in everyday life such as in the treatment of acid indigestion and ...

THE recent independent observation, by several of us, of peculiar histiocytosis of the spleens of patients with "idiopathic" thrombocytopenic purpura has prompted the collection and review of the m ...

A solution of 0.8 mol/dm 3 hydrochloric acid has a pH of 0.1. Predict its pH when it is diluted to 0.08 mol/dm 3. The hydrogen ion concentration decreases by a factor of 10, so the pH increases by ...