The chemicals we leave behind — Speaking of Chemistry
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Channel: Chemical & Engineering News · 2017 · Science & Technology
The products we use every day leave behind chemical footprints. Learn how and why researchers are now studying those trails. ↓↓More info and references below↓↓ Mass spectrometry is helping researchers learn more about our interactions with the everyday chemicals we use, such as DEET, caffeine, even medications. In this episode of Speaking of Chemistry, host Manny Morone talks to Pietr Dorrestein and Amina Bouslimani of the University of California, San Diego, California about how the chemicals we all leave behind could be useful in health and forensic science, and whether these chemicals should be cause for concern. Chemical traces yield ‘lifestyle sketches’ | C&EN http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i46/Chemical-traces-yield-lifestyle-sketches.html Lifestyle chemistries from phones for individual profiling | PNAS http://www.pnas.org/content/113/48/E7645 Molecular cartography of the human skin surface in 3D | PNAS http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/E2120.abstract A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins | Nature https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7228/full/nature07540.html Speaking of Chemistry is a production of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society. Contact us at [email protected]!
