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FeatureCleaning up industry’s water worries
With clean water supplies increasingly scarce, Angeli Mehta looks at what industry is doing to reduce its demands
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Business
Coca-Cola chemist convicted of trade secret theft
Xiaorong You stole files detailing BPA-free can coatings from seven major chemicals firms
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Business
Fatal explosion at US paint and polymers plant
One dead and nine others injured as building partially collapsed after explosion and fire
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Business
Government clears merger of SinoChem and ChemChina
China’s chemicals giants will unite under a state-run holding company
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Business
Making supercritical fluid extraction affordable with Nova Extraction
London-based duo wants this powerful technique to be cheaper and more widely accessible
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Feature
The growing problem of pesticide resistance
Weeds and other plant pests can no longer be controlled by chemicals as easily as they could. Bárbara Pinho talks to the scientists finding solutions
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Business
Antibody–drug conjugates drive growth in oncology
Antibody–drug conjugates are coming of age and pharma is investing, reports Katrina Megget
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Business
Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard
Exploring the pinch points vaccine makers face as they ramp up production
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Feature
Flow chemistry surges forward
The long-discussed technique could help make pharma manufacturing more distributed, finds Andy Extance, and create opportunities for chemists with the right skills
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Business
University team’s silica coats stop vaccines spoiling at room temperature
Asel Sartbaeva hopes her pioneering ensilication technology will be adopted to store and transport pediatric vaccines to low-income countries
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Business
Chromosol’s silicon photonics system tackles data transfer bottleneck
Technology for integrating lasers directly into photonic circuits could accelerate replacement of large and expensive optical systems
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Business
Polar storm paralyses US Gulf Coast petrochemical sector
Days after ‘icepocalypse’ hit Texas, 75% of US ethylene capacity was still offline, as was 70% of its polypropylene and 40% of propylene production
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Business
Coronavirus variants stymie success of monoclonal antibodies
Lab-made antibodies can treat and protect people from Covid-19 but are more likely to succeed when administered as a cocktail
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Business
BASF tightens austerity belt and closes plant in north of England
Political fallout over £1 billion Covid loan that preceded hexamethylene diamine plant closure
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Opinion
A rough guide to pharma partnership deals
Coronavirus vaccines are driving unusual collaborations with a range of benefits
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Business
Biggest venture yet of any pharma company into cannabis
Jazz Pharmaceuticals buys cannabinoid therapeutic firm for $7.2 billion, inheriting first plant-derived cannabinoid medicine ever approved by FDA
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Business
Covid vaccination efforts bolstered by trial results from J&J and Novavax
A miserable January ended with positive news on the vaccine front but new variants added complications
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Business
Patent applications listing AI as an inventor run into legal problems
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to find new chemical compounds and repurpose drugs, but should laws be updated to protect the intellectual property of such discoveries?
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Business
Hoxton Farms grows animal fat for meat substitutes
Covid-19 pandemic motivated friends to combine their expertise in cell biology and mathematical modelling, and realise company they had being discussing for years
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Business
DuPont and spinoffs reach $4bn settlement to resolve PFAS liability issues
DuPont, Chemours and Corteva have also reached an $83mn agreement to settle 95 pending personal injury cases in Ohio related to PFAS
