All articles by Andy Extance – Page 16
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ResearchCluster structure promises acid advance
After a 40-year wait, new information on how water clusters around protons stands to benefit our understanding of acids.
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FeatureReaching out
Andy Extance surveys how pharma uses outsourcing in a variety of different ways
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ResearchMechanism study seeks to clear ‘crystalline flask’ cloud
Could x-ray crystallography tracking of palladium-mediated aromatic bromination herald a flood of similar research?
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BusinessPfizer presses hard for AstraZeneca deal
Executives face down international controversy over tax schemes and previous post-merger record
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BusinessBayer wins race to buy Merck & Co consumer care
$14bn deal will make Aspirin inventor the number two over-the-counter healthcare company
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NewsMIT makes mega-investment in new nano lab
Multidisciplinary approach of $350 million MIT.nano will foster innovation and support investment in ‘state-of-the-art’ tools
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Business$25bn-plus trade sharpens pharma giants’ focus
Novartis’ asset swaps with GSK and Eli Lilly are the latest steps in an ongoing streamlining process
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Nanotubes zip into bundle of solar energy
Closely packing photoisomerisable groups together boosts energy storage density of versatile solar thermal fuels
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BusinessMissing safety risk emails draw $9bn Actos fine
Judge finds absence of Takeda documentation in bladder cancer case ‘disturbing’
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BusinessSun set on Ranbaxy rescue
Acquiring beleaguered firm will create India’s biggest pharmaceutical company
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Rotaxanes make symmetry history
Synthesis and separation of mechanically chiral rotaxanes after more than 40 years is ‘a major breakthrough’
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ResearchMolecular motors aim to pass water
Compounds that shift shape of droplets resting on them are a key step towards light-driven water motion
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Cheap polymers twist into superhuman muscles
Do try this at home, urge researchers who have given nylon and polyethylene thread a similar power-to-weight ratio to a jet engine
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Plants bear palladium catalyst fruit
Thale cress could turn mine waste into nanoparticles that deliver high Suzuki coupling yields
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BusinessJ&J puts trial data in independent hands
Yale University’s YODA seeks to help pharma avoid the dark side by acting as gatekeeper for patient records
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ResearchPhosphorene discovery positively impacts 2D electronics
Phosphorus is the latest element to enter flatland, where it becomes a p-type semiconductor
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FeatureWhat can U do?
Actinide chemistry is reaching beyond nuclear and revealing surprising behaviour, finds Andy Extance
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Rocket reactor forces space hydrogen rethink
Pioneering low temperature studies suggest interstellar clouds could hold double the hydrogen previously thought
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New sodium chlorides assault chemical rules
Calculations accurately predict uncommon salt with structures never seen before