All Columns articles – Page 84
-
Opinion
Letters: June 2008
From Peter Bentley Your article, ’The Trouble with Antibiotics’ (Chemistry World, March 2008, p16) was unremarkable in containing nothing new, but it did omit a few aspects. The timeline failed to show dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) or isoleucyl tRNA synthetase inhibitors, exemplified by trimethoprim and pseudomonic acid respectively. That takes ...
-
Opinion
Editorial: Our online offerings
Chemistry World is pleased to unveil a trio of innovations this month, spanning both our print and online offerings
-
Opinion
Divided by a common language
Derek Lowe dreams of the day when chemists and biologists can understand each other
-
OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
-
OpinionKjeldahl flask
Beer has made an immense contribution to humanity generally and to chemists in particular
-
Opinion
Letters: April 2008
From Jeremy Tomkinson, Adrian Higson and Geraint Evans We found the article ’Flawed policies encourage damaging biofuels’ (Chemistry World, February 2008, p6) to be disappointingly unbalanced. The provocative titles used for the piece do little to stimulate a reasoned and scientific debate in this immensely complex subject. The RSC has ...
-
Opinion
Letters: March 2008
From Martin Humphrey A group of scientists in New Zealand recently announced that they had genetically modified onions in such a way as to eliminate the lachrymator. Having spent many years studying the chemistry of this phenomenon, I would like to assure them that they will also have removed the ...
-
Opinion
A dose of realism
The recent row over antidepressants reminds us how little we know about the brain, says Derek Lowe