News – Page 371
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Business
Amgen to shed 2400-2900 jobs
Restructuring will see three sites close as company comes under pressure to streamline R&D, despite successes
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Research
New source of hydroxyl radicals found in the clouds
Ozone chemistry at air–water interface may increase radical formation four-fold
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ResearchTuring patterns show their hand in finger formation
After 62 years, scientists clinch the identification of molecules that confirm codebreaker’s ideas in a different ‘digital’ area
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Business
AstraZeneca stocks respiratory and cancer pipelines
A $2bn deal with Almirall and a raft of acquisitions and partnership deals bulk up two focus areas for the company
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ResearchTracking complex reactions in space and time
Scientific measurements taken with seemingly non-scientific equipment
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ResearchUnderwater self-healing polymer mimics mussels
Temporary hydrogen bonding network stitches damage as the material fuses together
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Business
Bruker winds down underperforming instrument lines
Stand-alone gas chromatographs and certain mass spectrometry products to be sold off
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ResearchSpray-deposition steers perovskite solar cells towards commercialisation
Scientists make headway on scalability hurdles
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ResearchNanoparticle protects protein drug cargo
Proteins cling to co-polymer thanks to electrostatic interactions
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ResearchPlant plastics reach for the stars
Star-shaped additives transform rice starch into a useful transparent plastic
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BusinessTakeover battle pushes Allergan to cut R&D jobs
Besieged by serially acquisitive Valeant, the Botox maker will lay off 1500 staff to propel earnings growth
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News
Future direction of Dutch science considered
Role of private industry heads a number of issues that confront how science is put to work for society
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ResearchBetter batteries with pure lithium anodes
Protective carbon nanosphere coating overcomes lithium problems, pointing the way to improved capacity
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Business
Reckitt Benckiser to spin out US pharma arm
Declining heroin addiction treatment sales prompt divestment as company focuses on over-the-counter and consumer products
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ResearchPropeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off
Chemists’ synthetic answer to graphene – flat polymer sheets a molecule thick – could be tailored to many applications
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BusinessPharma firms rush to escape US tax shackles
AbbVie–Shire and Mylan–Abbott mergers both allow US firms to escape to lower-tax European countries
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NewsNGOs call for Europe's chief scientific adviser post to be scrapped
Environmental groups say policy advice should come from several different sources
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NewsScientists and university officials caught up in China’s anti-corruption drive
Rising funding for universities may be fuelling corruption, while top bosses’ fiefdoms makes them hard to catch
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NewsEurope mulls best way to handle nanotech
Some countries have gone it alone and started registers of nanomaterials while the EU considers its options
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BusinessInvestigators find cause of West Virginia chemical spill
Holes in uninspected storage tanks led to leak that contaminated water supplies