News – Page 332
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NewsMalaria vaccine pilot studies recommended by WHO
GlaxoSmithKline’s RTS,S vaccine must undergo further testing before being rolled out, says World Health Organization panel
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ResearchTramadol found in African soils almost certainly artificial
New evidence may end speculation over plant production of painkiller first synthesised in the 1960s
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Biogen to cut 800 jobs worldwide
US biotech is reducing its workforce by 11% and cancelling several R&D programmes to cut costs
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ResearchCrystals allow peek at picosecond DNA damage
Combined x-ray and laser technique explores reaction with light lasting trillionths of a second
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NewsCanada’s science community content with Trudeau’s victory
New government offers the promise of liberating government scientists as well as research agencies
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ResearchAdd more peroxide to stabilise new drug molecules
From a curiosity to life-saving medicine – how peroxides make for stable and efficient drugs
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Nine dead in China plant blast
Explosion in Shandong province latest of several incidents in Chinese chemical plants
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NewsChemists’ anxiety mounts as spending review nears
Warnings that repeat of flat cash settlement would be disastrous and lead to a brain drain
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NewsRoyal Institution to sell off books to pay debts
UK science association hopes to make £750,000 by auctioning 90 historical texts from its library
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ResearchBlackest material ever made sets new record
Near perfect black body nanomaterial absorb 99% of visible light
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ResearchBacteriophages generate electricity under pressure
Piezoelectric device uses bacteriophages to beat biocompatibility issues of implantable electronics
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ResearchUncorking the chemical potential of wine waste
Sustainable technologies combined to make grapes go further
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ResearchNanotube desalination could be put back on track
Simulations reveal what may have been holding up this promising technology
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ResearchAncient graphite may push start of life back by 300 million years
Discovery of biologically forged carbon could rewrite textbooks on the earliest organisms
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NewsThe chemistry of diplomacy
State Department’s new science adviser, Vaughan Turekian, will use his atmospheric chemistry background to promote science in US diplomacy
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BMS agrees $1.7bn immuno-oncology collaboration
Deal strengthens cancer antibody alliance with Five Prime Therapeutics
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ResearchOne pot recipe for incompatible catalytic transformations
Polymer micelles isolate two catalysts that don’t get along to transform alkynes into chiral alcohols
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BusinessRaising industry’s voice
Canadian companies need to engage more with government to safeguard competitiveness while improving sustainability
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ResearchMicroporous copper silicate sucks up carbon dioxide
Humid flue gases from fossil fuel power stations are no problem for this new material