News – Page 445
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NewsEU tightens drug rules in wake of Mediator scandal
Withdrawal of a drug in one EU member state will trigger an alert throughout the rest
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Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent
Discovery could help researchers engineer flexibility into designer molecules
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Bayer $145 million animal health deal
Move will strengthen anti-infective portfolio and introduce reproductive hormones
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NewsUN report urges chemical industry to clean-up
The global cost of poor chemical management is high but industry argues report presents an incomplete picture
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Colourful metal detection
A sensor that can indicate the presence of heavy metal ion pollutants with a simple colour change
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NewsUK university lab shut after student poisoning
Police and safety body investigate as University of Southampton PhD student exposed to thallium and arsenic falls ill
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Seeing cells under stress
Combining analytical techniques with mechanical stretching to visualise cells under mechanical stress for disease studies
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Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA
Frizz Ease for DNA lets researchers probe single stranded nucleic acid interactions
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Dow tax case raises R&D questions
US court blocks Dow attempt to recoup costs under the R&D tax credit scheme
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The road less travelled
Jayne Garno tells Vibhuti Patel about her varied career path, why she prefers an academic career and pushing frontiers with her research
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TNT for top guns
It sounds strange but carrying TNT could protect fighter planes from heat seeking missiles
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Sponges to mop up marine methane
Superhydrophobic sponges could suck up ocean methane claim Chinese scientists
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ResearchBright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Fluorination via porphyrin
Researchers have selectively fluorinated alkanes, terpenes and steroids using a manganese complex
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Hope for autism treatments
Research points to dietary intervention and experimental drugs to manage autism
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Stopping obesity in its tracks
A drug to prevent obesity is a step closer with the discovery that conjugated linoleic acid can increase physical activity in an inactive mouse model
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Drawing maps to hunt for biological gold
A short list of plant families containing potential drug compounds has been drawn up by pooling traditional medicine knowledge
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NewsChina targets renewables to cut energy dependence
New five year plan will attempt to grow China’s domestic biofuels and biomass industry
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Business
Solvay adds fluorinated capacity
Company will double capacity at plant in Salindres, France, which makes triflic acid