Articles by Patrick O'Kane
Appetite Supression Using Hormones
An article I saw recently on Yahoo! News, discusses the discovery of a new appetite supressing hormone found in mice. The study focuses on a molecule known as N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine or NAPE for short. The compound …
MotW09 – Catalytic Decomposition of Water
The molecule of the week comes from ongoing research by Dr. Randolf Thummel at the University of Houston (Zeping Deng, Huan-Wei Tseng, Ruifa Zong, Dong Wang, and Randolph Thummel. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 1835 – …
Seeing Green…. Buildings
We have been hearing a lot about alternative energy sources, such as wind power, solar power, ethanol, and hydrogen fuel cells; however, there are tons of other green technologies out there.
One such technology, green roofing, …
