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The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three professors, one from the University of Delaware, one from Purdue University, and one from Hokkaido University. They have made a tool to make carbon to carbon bonds in organic chemistry. They call it palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling.

It would let scientists be able to make compounds as complex as those made in nature, something we were previously unable to do. The tool could be used in a wide range of fields, from agriculture and pharmaceuticals to coatings for electronic components.

I thought this was interesting because we are finishing up an organic chemistry unit in biology right now, and because of all its uses. I mean, isn't it ironic that there would be big news in the same field I'm looking at right now? I think it's funny personally. We were just talking about carbon bonds, and here is just what I wanted to do- learn something I didn't know about chemistry.

I really liked this for its uses because of how much this is good for. You can now make your own materials with ease for any number of things, and as complicated as nessacary. You could make the best possible medicines, a perfect building material, even microscopic cutting tools that could disintigrate after being used and not just be stuck in there. All sorts of health problems could be cured, especially with blood. You can make things to break down cholesterol, prevent strokes, and get rid of blood clots that would otherwise require surgery. By being able to make anything, you can do anything. Anything is possible.