News – Page 509
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Managing change: School of hard knocks
Peter Cook has woven together a love of rock music and science to create a novel team building experience for big business, as Emma Davies finds out
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Mystery of diamond polishing solved?
Researchers use molecular dynamics to come up with an atomic-level explanation for how diamond is polished
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Careers clinic: Transferable skills
Charlotte Ashley-Roberts transfers her knowledge about knowledge transfer
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The insider: Environmental options
Beauty is in the eye of the cosmetic chemist, discovers Yfke Hager as she learns about the job satisfaction of picking up a formula you created in a shop
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DNA readers ratchet closer
Nanopore DNA sequencers are on the verge of becoming a reality, as controlling DNA strand movement through the pore is finally cracked
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Business roundup: December 2010
Polished performance from Pradaxa The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pradaxa (dabigatran), made by Boehringer Ingelheim, for the prevention of stroke and blood clots in patients with abnormal heart rhythm, known as atrial fibrillation. Source: © Paul Gunning / Science Photo Library ...
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News in brief: December 2010
Hydrogen bond to be redefined The familiar definition of the H bond is set to be overhauled The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s (Iupac’s) Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division is preparing to scrap the familiar hydrogen bond definition, in light of recent evidence about ...
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Water and sunlight: a winning catalytic combination
Researchers have incorporated a sunlight-activated trigger into an oxygenation process that uses water as the oxygen source
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Enriching the origin of life theory
Enantioenrichment of one of life's building blocks could have occurred near volcanoes on primitive Earth
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Printing on bioactive paper
Enzyme-catalysed reactions can be printed on paper for many applications including anti-counterfeiting
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Making plastics from plants
Cheap biomass-derived oils could soon compete with crude oil to produce sought after chemical feedstocks for the plastics industry
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Capping scientific migrants
New immigration cap could bias against researchers looking to come to the UK
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Designing safer stents for heart patients
Insights into the mechanisms that trigger excessive healing around heart stents could inform development of new stent materials
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Novel green separation system
Canadian chemists serendipitously discover a new chromatography separation system that uses only carbon dioxide and water
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Irish drug industry fears bailout tax terms
Ireland's 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate helped the Celtic Tiger develop its pharma industry, which now fears an increase
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Rise of the micro machines
Microbots could be manipulated from outside the body to deliver cells to specific locations
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The medicine's in the (wine) bottle
Red wine contains enough antioxidants to rival the activity of diabetes drug rosiglitazone