X-Nico

unusual facts about Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear



73079 Davidbaltimore

The asteroid was named after David Baltimore (b. 1938), renowned for his Nobel Prize-winning biological research and for his vision and leadership as the seventh president of the California Institute of Technology (1997–2006).

Alanna Schepartz

Her research has contributed to three different areas of chemical biology: protein-DNA recognition and transcriptional activation; the development of miniature proteins that bind specifically and with high affinity to protein and DNA; and the development of β-peptides as protein ligands and as building blocks of protein-like architectures.

Anantha Babbili

Babbili holds B.S. degrees in biological sciences and journalism from Osmania University.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Bentham Science Publishers

In 2007, the Bentham Open Science journal, The Open Chemical Physics Journal, published a study contending dust from the World Trade Center attacks contained "active nanothermite".

Biomachining

Certain bacteria, such as Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiobacillus thiooxidans, which are also used in the mineral refinement process of bioleaching, utilize the chemical energy from oxidation of iron or copper to fix carbon dioxide from the air.

Biomech

Biomechanics, the study of the mechanical function of biological systems

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Chemical studies are now applied to industry, restoration and materials engineering, with a particular focus on nanotechnologies and biotechnologies.

Cláudio Costa Neto

He got his BSc degree in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Brazil (currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in 1954, Costa Neto worked under supervision of Fritz Feigl, responsible for the development of spot tests for identification and characterization of substances.

Cosmoline

Notable Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass recently disclosed that ancient Egyptian mummification practices from the third to fifth dynasties utilized a chemical compound molecularly similar to cosmoline.

Council for Chemical Research

The Council for Chemical Research was created in 1979 when Malcolm Pruitt, then VP for research at The Dow Chemical Company, convened the first meeting of research executives from the nation's major chemical companies and research universities.

Critica Botanica

The terms genus and species acquired their specialized biological usage from Linnaeus's predecessors, in particular Ray and Tournefort.

CUTL1

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reported that the mutation of CUX1 reduces the inhibitory effects of a biological inhibitor, PIK3IP1 (phosphoinositide-3-kinase interacting protein 1), resulted in higher activity of the growth promoting enzyme, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) which leads to tumor progression.

Dieter Matthaei

Matthaei D, Frahm J, Haase A, Schuster R, Bomsdorf H. Chemical-shift-selective magnetic-resonance imaging of avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

Drosophila hybrid sterility

The concept of a biological species as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding to produce viable offspring dates back to at least the 18th century, although it is often associated today with Ernst Mayr.

Dutch hypothesis

Genetic association studies that have uncovered the same polymorphisms in people with asthma and COPD provide support for the notion that the two conditions share some biological characteristics; implicated genes include ADAM33, CCL5 and IL17F.

Elephantopin

Elephantopin is a natural chemical compound extracted from the Elephantopus elatus plant of the genus Elephantopus, family Compositae.

EXW

Explosion welding, a solid state process where welding is accomplished by accelerating one of the components at extremely high velocity through the use of chemical explosives

Eye injury

Physical or chemical injuries of the eye can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion.

Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury

In a Season 7 episode of CSI: NY, entitled "Identity Crisis", it is revealed that the biological mother of Detective Jo Danville's adopted daughter, Ellie, is serving a long sentence at FCI Danbury.

Geography of Uzbekistan

shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from agricultural chemicals, including DDT

Heinrich Konen

When Konen left academia, he became an advisor in industry, especially for Troisdorfer Werke (Dynamit Nobel AG, a chemical and weapons company whose headquarters was based in Troisdorf).

Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

These studies include Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Pre-operational Baseline Radiological Survey of the Area around JNPP Site, Central Water and Power Research Station Pune, Thermal Dispersion Studies for Condenser Cooling Water (CCW) Discharges, Konkan Krishi Vidyapith, College of Forestry, Dapoli, Baseline Biodiversity Study of the area around JNPP Site.

Joseph Wang

In 2004-2008, he served as the Director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the newly established Biodesign Institute and as a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Arizona State University (ASU).

Journal of Chemical Sciences

This journal was established in 1934, but in 1978 it was split into three different journals: Journal of Chemical Sciences, Journal of Earth System Science, and Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences, all of them continuing as "volume 87".

Judy Lewis

She was also the half-sister of John Clark Gable (Clark Gable's son with his fifth wife, Kay Williams), Christopher Lewis and Peter Lewis (Loretta's biological sons).

Kon Ka Kinh National Park

Besides the biological diversity of the flora and fauna here, Kon Ka Kinh plays an important role in the protection of the upstream of the Ba River and the Dak Pne River, which supply water for tens of square kilometres of crops areas of Gia Lai Province and Kon Tum Province.

Lactobacillus L. anticaries

Lactobacillus L. anticaries is a bacterium created by the German chemical company BASF.

Lapeirousia

The plants are of considerable biological and evolutionary interest because of their adaptions to particular pollinators, such as flies in the families Tabanidae, Acroceridae, Bombyliidae, and most spectacularly, Nemestrinidae.

Léon Croizat

Leon Camille Marius Croizat (July 16, 1894 - November 30, 1982) was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed a synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he named Panbiogeography.

Lindsay-Hogg baronets

Their only child, Michael, an actor and director, who succeeded in 1999; his biological father, however, was the director and actor Orson Welles.

Marat Tazhin

Tazhin met with United States Senator Richard Lugar in Astana on 7 February 2006 to discuss biological weapon nonproliferation measures and cooperation with U.S. scientists.

Margaux Marasigan

Margaux Elizalde-Marasigan is the beautiful and sophisticated adoptive daughter and later revealed to be a biological daughter of Julio Marasigan (Ariel Rivera) and Beatrice Elizalde-Marasigan (Janice de Belen), who grew up living the life of a princess as the heiress of country's largest shoe company.

Morphogen

Alan Turing, better known for his work in wartime cryptography and the theory of computing, wrote a paper, The chemical basis of morphogenesis, correctly predicting a chemical mechanism for pattern formation.

Norwogonin

Norwogonin is a flavone, a flavonoid-like chemical compound which is found in Scutellaria baicalensis.

Operation Cauldron

The video shows a flight coming in and describes the arrival of the biological agents from MRD airport in Merida, Venezuela.

Proportionator

Gardi, J.E., J.R. Nyengard, H.J.G. Gundersen, Automatic sampling for unbiased and efficient stereological estimation using the proportionator in biological studies, Journal of Microscopy, 2008, Vol.

Provisional name

Undescribed taxon, a biological taxon that is recognized as distinct but has not received a formal name

PubChemSR

PubChemSR is a MS-Windows-based data search and retrieval tool for the NCBI's public chemical database PubChem.

R. Norris Shreve

After joining the Purdue University faculty in 1930, he helped to build the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Purdue-Taiwan Engineering Project, and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Rats in New York City

In 2013, it was announced that New York municipal authorities would implement a plan for mass sterilization of the city's rats, using a chemical to neutralize the reproductive systems of female rats.

School of Chemical Science

The School of Chemical Science or 'SOCHEM' is a Chemistry and Technical education school in Indore, India.

Sean Compton

Compton is the biological son of the late trucking talk show pioneer Dale Sommers and brother of Steve Sommers.

Staf Van Reet

He obtained a degree of engineering in Applied Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a Law degree from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

Steve Brudniak

His art incorporates, often pioneering, unconventional media and scientific elements such as high voltage electricity, Tesla coil technology, magnetic ferrofluid, gyro mechanics, biological preservations, fiber optics, and lasers.

Technological University of Pereira

The university offers studies in Engineering (Industrial engineering, Systems engineering and Computer science, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering); Science and Technology (Veterinary medicine, Medicine, Chemical technology, Industrial chemistry, Environmental management); Liberal arts (English, Spanish language and Literature, philosophy, Communication and Computer Education); Child pedagogy; and Sports science and recreation.

Tianji Coal Chemistry Industry Group chemical spill

This chemical spill contaminated the Zhuozhang River which is the source of drinking water for more than one million people, and so caused a water crisis in the downstream City of Handan, Hebei Province.

Trio for Blunt Instruments

John Canaday, The New York Times (May 28, 1964) — Rex Stout, who gives his birth date as Dec. 1, 1886, is either the victim of false records or the beneficiary of a biological aberration, eternal youth.

University of Chicago Press

It currently publishes 58 titles in a wide range of academic disciplines including the social sciences, the humanities, education, the biological and medical sciences, and the physical sciences.


see also

M93

M93 Fox, a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear reconnaissance vehicle