All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 227
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Opinion
Editorial: Sustainable Energy for All
Switching on the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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Business
Business roundup: February 2012
Pharmaceutical BMS spends $2.5 billion on antiviral firm Pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has struck a deal to buy US biotech Inhibitex for $2.5 billion (?1.6 billion). The move will stock BMS’s pipeline with antivirals, most notably INX-189, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor which is in Phase II trials for treating ...
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News
Note book: February 2012
Toxic release inventory 2010 The latest Toxic release inventory shows levels of toxins released into the US environment up for 2010 compared with the previous two years, but lower than for 2007. The report, published annually by the Environmental Protection Agency, shows that the increase is mainly due ...
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Careers
The drugs detective
Rian Charles tells Hayley Birch that getting a job as a forensic scientist takes conviction
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News
Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through
Graphene oxide film allows water through but not helium, opening up possibilities for separation technologies
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The world's first magnetic soap
Iron has been incorporated into a surfactant to produce a liquid that responds to an external magnetic field
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Conjuring graphene oxide from thin air
US chemists have turned carbon dioxide into graphene oxide
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Water repellent polymer slows down drug delivery
Superhydrophobic dopant allows polymer mesh to slowly release drugs over months rather than days
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Fake pesticides rife in Europe
The trade in illegal pesticides is widespread in Europe and growing, according to the European law enforcement agency
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Simple one stop shop for difluoromethylation
Drugs and agrichemicals can be easily improved using the new process and pharma is already making use of it
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Asteroid ages united by new isotope standard
Hydrous asteroids are as much as 9 million years younger than thought
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Takeda slashes 10% of its workforce
Japanese pharmaceutical firm sheds 2800 jobs in the US and Europe after recent takeover of Nycomed
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Tube-wrapped lamp makes malaria drug
Continuous flow photochemistry enables critical singlet oxygen hydroperoxidation, raising hopes of cheap artemisinin production
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New microbe turns sugary seaweed into fuel
Engineered E coli uses genes from a marine bacterium to turn seaweed into bioethanol