All Columns articles – Page 86
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Unbalanced DNA
If DNA polymerisation is reversible, asks Philip Ball, why don't we end up with some static equilibrium?
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Editorial: Retaining talent
Academic chemistry is a less welcoming environment for women than it is for men
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Reaction variety – the spice of life?
Derek Lowe is looking for a little more variety among his reactions
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Life-changing chemistry
Which chemist's work has touched the most lives? Marie Curie? Louis Pasteur? Joseph Lister?
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Letters: July 2008
From Randal Richard I was interested to read the article by Sean McWhinnie ’Science funding in crisis’ (Chemistry World, June 2008, p40). The article had a broad sweep encompassing changes in the research assessment exercise (RAE) to research exercise framework (REF); the recent enquiry of the Innovation, universities and skills ...
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Identifying an ancient miracle medicine
Philip Ball gets down to earth with chemical archaeologists
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Hypocrellin A
Marisa Kozlowski's team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed an elegant synthesis of hypocrellin A that uses helical chirality to control traditional stereocentres through a dynamic stereochemistry transfer reaction.
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OpinionErlenmeyer flask
George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language
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Lost in translation
From time to time I translate public relations documents on progress in science and technology
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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 ...
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Callipeltoside A
Harvard's David Evans has applied his renowned aldol reaction expertise to synthesise callipeltoside A, a complex natural product that has challenged chemists since its isolation in 1996.
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OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century