News – Page 385
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Nanobionic plants
A step towards biochemical detectors for monitoring environmental conditions and, ultimately, synthetic materials that grow and repair themselves like plants
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US focuses pharma supply chain scrutiny
Import pre-authorisation for trusted firms frees up resources to tackle purity problems
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Short peptides self-assemble into a catalyst
Catalysts made from peptide chains just seven amino acids long could shed light on enzyme evolution
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Chemists make headway on C–H activation challenges
New ways to target and control C-H bonds creates opportunities for organic synthesis.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb to close Irish plant
130 jobs to go at manufacturing site in Cruiserath
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Minerals Technologies wins tussle over Amcol
US firm outbids European rival Imerys for polymer and speciality minerals supplier
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Piece of Earth’s interior ‘ocean’ found in diamond
Water-rich mineral points to vast stores of water 500km underground
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NewsUK government urged to cash in on waste
Lords’ committee says more waste should be converted into high-value products
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ResearchSaturn’s largest moon home to prebiotic ‘soup’
Organics dissolved in Titan’s lakes may create conditions suitable for life
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ResearchAspirin anchor helps cisplatin beat resistance
Introducing asplatin, a fusion of cisplatin and aspirin
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ResearchDinosaur mass extinction may have been triggered by acid rain
Asteroid impact could have produced enough sulfur trioxide to dramatically lower ocean pH
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NewsSpain’s research council plans austere future
Country’s largest research institution maps out cuts to scientist and a freeze on new PhDs or postdocs until 2017
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NewsObama’s proposed science budget disappoints
Funding requests for 2015 for major US science agencies fail to keep pace with inflation
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Europe's chemical industry faces extinction in 10 years
Chairman of Ineos warns that the sector could go the way of the dinosaur thanks to high energy and feedstock costs
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Shortcut to carbon dioxide plastics holds sequestration promise
Japanese chemists circumvent energetically unfavourable polymer route with radical reaction
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Bayer agrees seed firm takeover in Argentina
Bayer CropScience seeks to grow South American seed business
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NewsConvicted chemist was ‘sole bad actor’ at US drug lab
Report concludes Annie Dookhan was only bad apple at lab but 40,000 drug cases may need revisiting
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Santiago Gómez-Ruiz: Chemistry is a powerful tool for fighting cancer
Santiago Gómez-Ruiz talks about his work with nanostructured materials and shares his advice for young scientists
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NewsPoliticians accuse US food agency of illegally monitoring employees
Republican staff report calls the Food and Drug Administration’s surveillance of whistleblowers unlawful
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Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer
Fullerenes can form penrose tile patterns on the surface of quasicrystalline alloys