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Business
Business roundup: February 2008
Chemical blasts A spate of accidents in chemical plants around the world in the last two months - including in the US and Japan - has caused the deaths of 20 plant employees, and left dozens more injured. On 19 December a blast and fire in the US ...
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News
German chemistry rated world class
An independent study of chemistry in German universities and research institutes finds research excellence
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Opinion
Letters: January 2008
From Bernard Langley May I congratulate you and your colleagues on your splendid November issue of Chemistry World. The balance of topics, the quality of the writing, the enthusiastic spirit of the whole thing - from your editorial right through to that magnificent killer review of the green chemistry book ...
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News
News in brief: January 2008
Firefly chemistry in less glowing terms The eerie glow of the firefly has been trumpeted for half a decade as an exceptionally efficient example of bioluminescence - where a chemical reaction inside the insect emits light. The reaction, in which luciferin molecules are oxidised to excited states ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2008
Manufacturing chemists face worldwide job cuts Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has become the latest pharmaceutical company to announce a cost-saving restructuring plan that will slash manufacturing jobs. The US drug maker will scale down in its manufacturing operations, cutting its workforce by 4800 - about 10 per cent - ...
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Podcast
December 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - December 2007INTRODUCTION(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry, this is the Chemistry World Podcast.(Promo ends)Interviewer - Chris SmithHello, welcome to the Chemistry World Podcast, which is brought to you this month by Mark Peplow, Victoria Gill, Ananyo Bhattacharya, and Richard Van Noorden. ...
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Opinion
Letters: December 2007
From David Feakins Congratulations on the splendid October issue of Chemistry World. I found all the articles on the topic of energy absolutely riveting. For example, I have always been a supporter of nuclear fission as a medium-term answer to the supply of energy, but had not realised until I ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2007
Price fight over HIV drug GlaxoSmithKline has filed a lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories, claiming that its 2003 decision to increase the price of its HIV drug Norvir by 400 per cent was anticompetitive. GSK is the latest in a growing list of claimants to sue its US competitor, including four ...
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News
Energy law pushes market pricing
A draft of China's long-awaited energy law paves the way for market pricing of energy, and an energy ministry
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News
A glowing future for nanotubes
Fluorescent nanotube bundles could be used as chemical sensors or in optoelectronics
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Review
Qaulity assurance
Good clinical, laboratory and manufacturing practices: techniques for the QA professional