All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 96
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OpinionAsteriscunolide D
Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioural oddities. While the properties and synthesis of smaller rings (three to six atoms in size) are well known, and that of true macrocycles can at least be estimated, each medium ...
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Opinion
A packed dancefloor
To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball
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Opinion
The language of the lab
Derek Lowe wonders what the lab lingua franca might be in the years to come
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Careers
The insider: Seeds of Change
Yfke Hager takes a look at careers in agricultural chemistry and the scientists who are working to feed the world
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Careers
Profile: The drugs detective
Rian Charles tells Hayley Birch that getting a job as a forensic scientist takes conviction
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Careers
Careers clinic: Analytical aspirations
Charlotte Ashley-Roberts puts the work of analytical chemists under the microscope
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Careers
Managing change: Patent protectors
When it comes to the world of patents, a chemist's knowledge of the laws of the lab can be as important as knowing the laws of the land, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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Keeping the tap on
James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth
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Opinion
Letters: February 2012
In his comment article, David Fox (Chemistry World, January 2012, p42) highlights the importance of having access to a well-curated repository of small molecules for drug discovery (and chemical genomics), but he feels that it is important to ’combine a well-validated target with a means of intervention that minimises attrition ...
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Feature
Silver soils
Nanosilver is filtering into the environment in ever-increasing quantities. But is it the nano or the silver component we should be worrying about, asks Hayley Birch
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Damage limitation
Emma Davies investigates attempts to stem the flow of potentially harmful fluorinated chemicals into both our environment and our bloodstreams
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News
Illumina fends off Roche hostile bid
Roche aims to expand personalised medicine diagnostics by acquiring the gene sequencing leader