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Here we go, the story about how the kinetic isotope effect might make you live longer:

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/March/22030703.asp

which I reported on March 22 (see blog of 23.3.), got picked up on the 26th by:

CBC (Radio Canada): http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/26/science-isotopes.html

Chemistry & Industry: http://www.chemind.org/CI/articles.jsp?chemID=CH8013

Daily Express: http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2767

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=444558&in_page_id=1774

Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/26/norganic126.xml

eCanada: http://www.ecanadanow.com/science/health/2007/03/26/meat-with-additives-lead-to-longer-life/

Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261362,00.html

Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2042904,00.html

Physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news94102493.html

PressTV: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3889&sectionid=3510210

UKTV: http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Food.news/aid/585066

in German:

AerzteZeitung: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2007/03/28/058a1602.asp?cat=/magazin/auch_das_noch

Blick: http://www.blick.ch/news/wissenschaftundtechnik/artikel59089

MensHealth: http://www.menshealth.de/news/health/anti_aging_forschung_laenger_leben_durch_manipuliertes_essen.59534.htm

oe24: http://www.oe24.at/zeitung/gesund/article121747.ece

ORF: http://science.orf.at/science/news/147716

Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,473920,00.html

Der Standard: http://derstandard.at/PDA/?id=2820262

... ok, I give up. There are over 400 hits to the search "shchepinov isotope" in google.

Note that there wasn't even a press release or anything about the CW story, which is why it doesn't get mentioned much in the later reports ...

2007-03-30 10:01:03 GMT


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