All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 97
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News
Expert guidance on clinical trial safety
Recommendations and new test in light of Phase I disaster
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Unique teaching laboratory goes online
Remote-controlled chemical reactor can be operated through the internet
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Ancient protein moonlights in the eye
Bacterial enzyme coopted for supporting role in vertebrate eye lens
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Nano-hype comes out in the wash
PREVIEW: Widely-reported EPA regulations won't focus on nanoparticles - but Berkeley city council will
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Reach goes ahead
The European Parliament today gave the go-ahead to launch the EU regulatory regime for chemicals
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Nanotube photoconductors
Self-assembled nanotubes conduct an electric current in response to light.
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Electronics go on a bender
New ways to deliver functioning electronic systems onto flexible substrates
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Ice crystals trapped inside nanotubes
Computer simulations show huge variety of molecular patterns in caged water
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Business
Business roundup: January 2007
BASF juggles hot potatoes German chemicals giant BASF has been courting controversy with two types of genetically modified potato. The Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) has granted permission for the company to grow its GM blight-resistant potatoes at field sites in the UK, while the European Commission ...
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Opinion
Who’s looking after the nation’s science?
The UK's science base needs better care, argues Sue Ferns
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Opinion
Alan Turing's leopard science
How did the leopard get its spots? Recent research supports an idea first suggested by legendary code-breaker Alan Turing, says Philip Ball
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FeatureTreasures from the deep
Mining companies are exploring underwater volcanic vents, hoping to extract metals such as gold and copper. Victoria Gill looks at the technical, environmental and political hurdles
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Careers
Miniaturisation of drug sensors
Craig Banks is passionate about his research. In his short academic career he has already co-founded a spin-out firm to make cannabis detectors, as Yfke Hager finds out
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Opinion
Editorial: Reach out
It's been a long time coming, but the European Reach legislation has finally been settled, and should come into force progressively from June 2007
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Opinion
The lab equipment your kitchen is missing
It's time to retrofit your kitchen pans with reflux condensers, says Dylan Stiles
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Opinion
Learning from pharma failures
Derek Lowe looks at the recent failure of Pfizer's cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, and asks what it means for the future of pharmaceutical research
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Opinion
Letters: January 2007
From Richard Schmidt Horst Hippler asks why most natural amino acids are l and most natural sugars d (Chemistry World, October 2006, p22). The answer to this question might already have been answered: selection for these enantiomers has been driven by a fundamental property of interfacial (or vicinal) water. Philippa ...