All articles by Andy Extance – Page 14
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NewsGamblers judge research quality cheaply and well
‘Prediction market’ trial in chemistry departments suggest less arduous way to prepare for research assessment
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ResearchCrystals allow peek at picosecond DNA damage
Combined x-ray and laser technique explores reaction with light lasting trillionths of a second
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Research‘Chemical search engine’ backs alternative route to life
Spontaneous peptide formation conditions found using automated system
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ResearchChemists harness impermanent ‘star’ molecule
Iron complex overcomes [5]radialene’s enthusiasm for reacting with itself, filling decades-old gap in series
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ResearchMegasupramolecules promise to quell fuel explosions
‘Sticky-ended’ molecules that self-assemble into long chains may have made 9/11 less deadly
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BusinessCosmetics deals push skin 3D bioprinting
Interest for testing from L’Oréal, BASF and Procter & Gamble could be a stepping stone towards bespoke organs
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FeatureOligonucleotide drugs step up
Structural innovations are overcoming oligonucleotide drugs’ historical flaws, discovers Andy Extance
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ResearchFirming COFs up takes Michael reaction catalysis forward
Chemists stabilise hexagonal layers that form nanochannels, which help speed up conversions
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ResearchVitamin makes tricky E/Z flipping easy
Thanks to riboflavin, chemists see route to Z-isomers of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl intermediates
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Research‘Fire fountain’ data illuminate lunar history
Volatile element details promise to ignite research into Moon’s origin and evolution
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BusinessPorous pills could be largest industrial 3D printing use
US grants first-of-a-kind approval for Aprecia’s epilepsy tablets exploiting porous structure
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ResearchPhilae poses comet chemistry conundrum
Historic mass spectra find 67P carries precursors to key biomolecules, but instruments detect different ones
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BusinessChemical firms seek better grasp of biomanufacturing
The search is on for better alternatives to the ‘broken’ way companies harness compound-making organisms
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FeatureGetting the measure of Mars
Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying our neighbouring planet, as Andy Extance discovers
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FeaturePharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations
Combinations of different firms’ drugs seek to reap immuno-oncology’s benefits
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ResearchCopper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble
Stubbornly stable unactivated internal alkenes become chiral tertiary amine precursors
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FeatureOrganic odysseys
Andy Extance looks at two drugs that cranked the synthetic challenge all the way up to Halaven
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ResearchX-rays capture super-fast nanoscale film
Chance finding underlines nanodiffraction technique’s power and potential
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ResearchNoble gas joins σ-hole interaction crowd
Surprising ‘aerogen bonding’ completes set of p-block groups exhibiting the phenomenon
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FeatureCapturing carbon
Andy Extance finds uncertainty over efforts to capture and store CO2 from power generation