All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 137
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Feature
Chemistry in Africa
Science is playing an increasingly important role in sub-Saharan Africa. A number of new initiatives and organisations are helping to promote chemistry in education and industry, as Helen Carmichael finds out
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Feature
From here to Bologna
The Bologna process promises to create a unified education system in 45 countries by 2010. Is this an achievable goal? Terry Mitchell reports
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Feature
A change in focus
David Brennan, chief executive officer of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, is taking the company on a new course towards biologic drugs.
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Feature
Microfluidics: wet and potentially wild
Lab-on-a-chip technology is finally seeing widespread use in analysis and synthesis. Jon Evans catches up with the progress of microfluidics research
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Opinion
Writers block
It used to be held that the cure for writer's block was to gaze fixedly at a blank sheet of paper until beads of blood formed on your forehead
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Opinion
Letters: December 2006
From Paul Davies I would like to thank the readers of Chemistry World for their assistance with our survey, investigating the mechanism of hair greying (Chemistry World, September 2006, p35). Specifically we are looking at a possible link between cessation of melanogenesis in the hair follicle and the ...
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Feature
Fat of the land
As we become progressively more rotund, our body chemistry undergoes critical changes that have a major impact on our health. Dennis Rouvray sizes up this burgeoning problem
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Opinion
Global pharma investment
Derek Lowe looks at the story behind the growing investment by western companies in medicinal chemistry research in China
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Opinion
Chemistry's clandestine current
Chemistry has always been the most secretive of sciences, argues Philip Ball
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Opinion
For the love of solvents
Dylan Stiles loves his solvents like children - even the naughty ones
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OpinionEditorial: Funding fundamentals
University science education has received a significant boost with the announcement that the Higher education funding council for England (Hefce) will provide an extra £75 million over three years for courses in chemistry, physics, and materials and chemi
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Opinion
Understanding chemical engineering
Teaching as well as research can help bridge the no-man's land between chemistry and chemical engineering, says Mark Haw
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Careers
The first public awareness scientist in the UK
As a public awareness scientist, Samantha Tang is keen to encourage others to spread the wonders of science. Yfke Hager finds out more
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Business
Business roundup: December 2006
The drugs don’t work Third quarter results from the pharmaceutical industry were marred by simultaneous admissions that promising new treatments had been withdrawn and delayed. British giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and AstraZeneca, which both reported a boost in third quarter sales, have been forced to abandon new treatments ...
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News
Home-baked plants solve petrol mystery
Artificial leaf fossils confirm origins of petrol's precursor.
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News
Getting the dope on a single atom of dopant
The quantum state of a single atom of dopant in a silicon semiconductor has been measured.