Hardin of the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

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"The existence of these structures may be loaded when the cell has a certain genotype or a certain dysfunctional state, " said Prof Shankar Balasubramanian from Cambridge's department of chemistry.

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The research team, which also includes the university's department of chemistry and scientists at the University of the West of England, is growing each of the algae from the Roman Baths over a range of temperatures and comparing them to "control" algae known for being good for producing biodiesel at normal temperatures.

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The chairman of the chemistry department at Stanford, Richard Zare, had flown in for the day, as had Eric Leuthardt, a young neurosurgeon from Washington University, in St.

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"The challenge is to make a microbattery array that is robust enough and that does not have a single short circuit in the whole array via a process that can be scaled up cheaply, " said Prof Clare Grey from the University of Cambridge's chemistry department.

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The University of Exeter this week announced that it would close its chemistry department the 28th to do so in the past ten years, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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