All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 252
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FeatureFaster, cheaper, better diagnostics
Microfluidics researchers are aiming to bring new diagnostic devices into mainstream medicine. Mark Peplow reports
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Business
Review says cheaper drug is safe for eye disease
Cochrane collaboration says side effects of expensive Lucentis and off-label Avastin are similar
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PodcastTantalum pentoxide
Lars Öhrström explains how tantalum(V)oxide banished ‘the brick’ and allows your mobile phone to fit in your pocket
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CareersSigning science
Helen Carmichael reports on a project that’s making sign language scientifically articulate
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OpinionGood advice
Rather than axing his chief scientific adviser, the next president of the European commission should enhance the role
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ResearchFirst interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule
Discovery shows that stellar nurseries could hold amino acids too that might have been the spark for life on Earth
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Business
India backs off drug pricing controls
Current price caps will stand, but rules on how new caps can be imposed are being tightened
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ResearchBreakup reaction hints at handedness of nature
Dissociation of 3-bromocamphor provides clues on why nature favours one mirror image of a molecule over another
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NewsUS chemical regulation reform deadlocked once more
Efforts to update the US’s nearly 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act are grounded following political squabble
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BusinessMerck KGaA to buy Sigma–Aldrich
$17bn acquisition expands Merck’s life science business and US presence, but it isn’t stepping back from drug development
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ResearchPerovskite solar cells show hydrogen production promise
Highly efficient solar cells and catalysts made from cheap, common materials use sunlight to split water
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News
NIH wants scientists to consider sex in research
Preclinical and clinical research is overreliant on male test subjects which can cloud future work in humans
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ResearchJames Crowley: Magicians rings and dumbbells on a molecular scale
James Crowley on making stimuli responsive molecular machines from mechanically interlocked architectures
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FeatureThe molecules that make memory
The chemistry of making – and losing – memories is increasingly well understood, as Rachel Brazil discovers
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FeaturePepping up antibiotics
Industry and academia are turning to antimicrobial peptides to find new antibiotics, Andy Extance discovers
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NewsWhite House tightens oversight of dangerous studies
New rules governing so-called ‘dual use’ research will take effect in a year, but there is concern that they will stymie critical studies
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OpinionGarbage in, garbage out
The rise of low-quality and predatory open access journals and conferences worries Derek Lowe