All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 136
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NewsChina targets renewables to cut energy dependence
New five year plan will attempt to grow China’s domestic biofuels and biomass industry
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CareersTastefully done
Russell Keast’s early years as a chef gave him an appetite for science that took him out of the kitchen and into the lab, he tells James Mitchell Crow
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Stopping obesity in its tracks
A drug to prevent obesity is a step closer with the discovery that conjugated linoleic acid can increase physical activity in an inactive mouse model
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OpinionChemical biology comes of age
Changing attitudes and increased support mean chemical biology research has a bright future, says Andy Merritt
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ReviewInventing chemistry – Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts
John PowersUniversity of Chicago Press2012 | 280pp | £26 (HB)ISBN 9780226677606Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) was a pivotal figure in early chemistry. His professional life was devoted to the medical curriculum at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, from 1701–1738 and he was professor of chemistry there from 1718 (a visit to the ...
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Hope for autism treatments
Research points to dietary intervention and experimental drugs to manage autism
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ResearchBright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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FeatureClothing gets smart
The clothing of the future may be able to do much more than preserve one’s dignity. Nina Notman reports on what you can expect from the 21st century t-shirt
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Fluorination via porphyrin
Researchers have selectively fluorinated alkanes, terpenes and steroids using a manganese complex
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Sponges to mop up marine methane
Superhydrophobic sponges could suck up ocean methane claim Chinese scientists
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TNT for top guns
It sounds strange but carrying TNT could protect fighter planes from heat seeking missiles
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The road less travelled
Jayne Garno tells Vibhuti Patel about her varied career path, why she prefers an academic career and pushing frontiers with her research
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Business
Dow tax case raises R&D questions
US court blocks Dow attempt to recoup costs under the R&D tax credit scheme
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Seeing cells under stress
Combining analytical techniques with mechanical stretching to visualise cells under mechanical stress for disease studies
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Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA
Frizz Ease for DNA lets researchers probe single stranded nucleic acid interactions
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Business
Bayer $145 million animal health deal
Move will strengthen anti-infective portfolio and introduce reproductive hormones
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NewsUK university lab shut after student poisoning
Police and safety body investigate as University of Southampton PhD student exposed to thallium and arsenic falls ill
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Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent
Discovery could help researchers engineer flexibility into designer molecules