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Nitrogen does diamond
Putting nitrogen gas under pressure generates a cage-like material with explosive potential properties
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A cell for a cell
A tiny jail that can hold a single biological cell could be a useful tool for studying rare cells
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More jobs go: Lonza cuts 500
A bid to ‘secure the future’ of the site at Visp in Switzerland
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BusinessChemists contribute to prior art hunt
A crowdsourcing website that pays for prior art is gaining popularity – can chemists make money?
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No more tears tape
Quick release medical tape could reduce pain and damage in neonatal care
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Algal biofuel's viability questioned
Large scale production of algal biofuels is currently unsustainable, says new report
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Cardboard to create current from bacteria
Cheap and sustainable corrugated cardboard can be used in a microbial fuel cell to generate electricity
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Prescription nanoreactors
A nanoreactor that synthesises and releases an antibiotic that is commonly used to treat bacterial infections
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Fireflies inspire low-cost LED lighting
Mimicking bioluminescent structures could help drive down the cost of manufacturing LEDs
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ResearchMOF based motorboat
Molecular self propulsion achieved by loading a MOF with a hydrophobic peptides fuel
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Patent woes lead to sharp sales losses
Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly have all suffered loss of exclusivity for key drugs
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Molecular muscle machines bulk up
Iron co-ordination wrestles daisy-chain rotaxane molecular machines into a muscle-mimicking polymer
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Determining sex from a fingerprint
Mass spectroscopy can be used to determine the sex of a person from their fingerprints
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Funding worries in UK higher education
Think tank calculates that UK tuition fees reform might not save any money at all
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Problems for Russian chemicals?
Accession to WTO will force government to ditch badly needed subsidies
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Energy harvesting from your phone display
A display device recycles the light from the screen back into the battery
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Less is more for DNA reactions
Small amounts of DNA have led to more efficient DNA-directed reactions than before