News – Page 311
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NewsReliance on numbers for funding threatens to stifle UK science
Concentrating funding at top institutes threatens country’s ability to respond to change
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ResearchHarvesting hydrogen from tough biomass
Electrolytic device unlocks energy in lignin and cellulose
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NewsChina’s science enterprise challenging US leadership
40% of the world’s R&D is now carried out in south-east, south and east Asia
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NewsHuge publishing scandal engulfs South Korean universities
Academics in many disciplines republished textbooks to pad CVs and line their pockets
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ResearchSteam powers artificial muscle
Carbon nanotube and silicone composite used to make clever actuator
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ResearchDrugs at your fingertips
Forensic gloves check for cocaine and cutting agents in suspicious powders
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BusinessClinical trial death highlights hazards
Pain drug trial has left one dead and five hospitalised in France, with little indication as to the cause of the problems
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BusinessGSK scientists indicted for trade secret theft
Two researchers accused of passing research data and manufacturing details to Chinese firm
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Business
Fatal blast at US peroxide plant
One dead and three injured in an equipment explosion at PeroxyChem in Texas
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ResearchChemical reaction flipped back and forth under scanning probe microscope
Work demonstrated on Bergman cyclisation offers route to valuable new reactions
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ResearchBreakthroughs amidst risk
We chat to Nobel prize winner Alan Heeger as he approaches his 80th birthday
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ResearchMicroscopic cannon battery to blast disease
Cannon-like tubes shoot tiny bullets when triggered by ultrasound and could deliver drugs
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ResearchGraphene oxide electronics are hot off the press
Printed electronic transfers created using water-based printing process
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ResearchCrispr conversation starter
Alan Regenberg talks to Katrina Megget about the ethics of gene editing
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NewsGreen chemistry hindered by lack of toxicology training
Leaders in the field condemn the lack of toxicology education for chemistry undergraduate and PhD students
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BusinessCrispr goes commercial
Gene editing technique Crispr has shaken up genomics research and the commercial opportunities couldn’t be more evident
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ResearchMolecular threads woven into flexible fabric
New covalent organic framework contains interlacing polymer chains that can slide past one another
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ResearchHow to tell your left from your right amino acids
Colorimetric method lends a hand to chiral amino acid recognition
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ResearchDrug labelling problems ironed out by new catalyst
Cost-effective method to tritiate compounds offers way to track drug metabolism while minimising radioactive waste
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