News – Page 442
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Attempts to reform Croatian science stall
Controversy over changes to promotions and retirement age send the reforms back to the drawing board
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Government adds £200 million to research partnership fund
Cash boost to fund designed to improve university-industry collaboration
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Perovskite posits answer to xenon riddle
The surprising noble gas ratio in the Earth's atmosphere could be explain by the solubility of these gases in magma during the planet's formation
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Cotton thread to monitor athletes’ dehydration
Woven into cloth, the device could be used to monitor salt concentration in human sweat in real time
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ResearchTurbo-charged Diels-Alder reaction
A new method for generating arynes from alkynes has been discovered via a Diels-Alder reaction
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BusinessSlump in confidence hits EU chemical industry
Latest figures show that production for the first seven months of this year will be down 2.4% on the same time last year
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ResearchDrawing gas sensors with a nanotube pencil
Simple way to make paper-based gas sensors could be used to detect almost any gas or disease biomarkers
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Taming erythropoietin through synthesis
Chemists create protein drug from scratch to try to understand how different sugars change its potency
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NewsChemistry Nobel awarded for protein receptors
US scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka take prestigious gong for pharmacologically important breakthroughs
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NewsIllegal medicines seized in worldwide operation
Largest crackdown on illegal internet pharmacies ever nets £6.5 million of fake and unlicensed drugs
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ResearchBatteries not included
A step towards implantable fuel cells to operate medical devices from within the human body, using the body’s energy
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NewsDeveloping countries look to greater scientific cooperation
Increasing the number of collaborations between developing nations should help to build their research bases
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A cancer treatment that goes further
Ultrasound activated nanoparticles reach deep into tissues to target cancer cells
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Medicinal hope for injectable hydrogels
Dually ionic hydrogels with pH and temperature sensitive properties used for therapeutic protein delivery
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US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations
Massachusetts state chemist’s arrest for allegedly falsifying evidence in drug cases casts doubt on thousands of convictions
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Magnetic nanoparticles zap cancer
'Death switch' in cancer cells can be flicked by remote controlled nanoparticles
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EU food agency criticises GM maize cancer paper
A review of a paper linking herbicide tolerant maize to tumours in rats has been castigated as poor science
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Bayer and Evotec team up on endometriosis
German collaboration aims to develop three drug candidates in five years
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Teva pulls generic antidepressant
FDA rules that Budeprion XL is not equivalent to Wellbutrin XL