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Smallpox vaccine virus puts cancer in its sights
Anti-cancer virus can infect tumours but leaves healthy tissue unharmed
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Graphene memorises data in a flash
A prototype graphene flash memory material is already outperforming its commercial silicon counterparts on data storage
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EPA's laboratory management weaknesses persist
EPA urged to revamp its lab system for decades, but GAO finds the agency still lacks coordination
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ACS aims to stimulate creation of 100,000 jobs
US chemical society hopes lobbying on tax and R&D credits will boost chemistry entrepreneurial spirit
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G-quadruplexes take the strain in cancer drug search
Measuring how small molecules interact with structures such as telomeres could throw up cancer drug targets
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Synthetic self-assembling collagen for tissue engineering
Carefully designed peptide chains can undergo hierarchical assembly into a collagen-like hydrogel - potentially useful for tissue engineers
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Chemical activism targets big clothing brands
Greenpeace has provoked promises from Nike that it will take action on supply chain chemicals
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Business roundup: September 2011
Challenges for the drugs to help you quit Source: © Shutterstock Tobacco kills six million people every year The share price of US-based Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has fallen by 70 per cent after it announced that its nicotine addiction treatment, NicVax, failed to reach its endpoint in the ...
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Meteorites are a chip off the old asteroid block
Dust scraped from an asteroid 300 million km away will help researchers to form a picture of the solar system's history
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Poking aspirin with a sharp stick
A method to distinguish between polymorphs, which is important for drug design, involves making dents in the polymorphic crystals using a sharp implement
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Rapid route to huperzine A
Chemists have devised a synthesis of a scarce, but valuable, natural product
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New source of Tamiflu
Isolating Tamiflu starting material from Ginkgo biloba trees could avoid future Tamiflu shortages
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Cosmic rays get ahead in CLOUD
Organic aerosols may play a much more important role in cloud formation that previously thought
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Chemists are dying to uncover historic textile's
Spectroscopic analysis allows identification of dyes in heritage clothing and offers insights into technological sophistication
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Japanese government opens dialogue with public
The nuclear disaster at Fukushima has led the Japanese government to court public opinion on science
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Expanded genetic alphabet could spell out new genes
DNA with six, rather than four, bases could be used as the genetic code for synthetic life
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Breaking open boranes to power fuel cells
A new reusable ruthenium catalyst can efficiently extract hydrogen from ammonia borane for potential use in fuel cells