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Business roundup: March 2010
Air Products makes hostile bid for Airgas Air Products has launched a $7 billion (£4.47 billion) hostile takeover bid for rival gas supplier Airgas to gain access to the US bottled gas market. If shareholders take up the $60 a share bid, the combined company would become the largest industrial ...
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Biofuels without the blend
New method recycles agricultural waste into renewable alkenes for jet and diesel fuel that doesn't need to be blended with other fuel
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Government heeds concerns on science advice rules
UK science minister indicates that concerns over proposed rules governing science advice in government have been accommodated
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Agrochem R&D strangled by red tape
Increasing burden of field trial data is hindering the development of new crop protection agents
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Nanomachinery lights up
Japanese researchers design light-activated 'on-off' switch for DNA nanomachines
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Marine microbes wired up
Bacterial 'nanowires' could allow marine microbes to cooperate through electric circuits that power metabolism
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Buckyball-based gene delivery
Japanese researchers have demonstrated effective gene delivery in mice using carbon buckyballs
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MOFS make light work of it
Metal-organic frameworks could be a new source of white light scientists discover
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Soil switches on antibiotic genes in bacteria
Production of a new antibiotic active against MRSA can be triggered by soil extracts
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Funding cuts will 'damage a generation' of science
Peter Agre, AAAS president, speaks out about the impact of slashing research budgets
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Fullerenes break the rules
Unusual egg-shaped fullerenes containing triple sequentially-fused pentagons have been made by Chinese chemists
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Forcing stereoselectivity on reactive cations
By using two catalysts in cooperation, stereochemical control can be exerted over highly reactive, normally chirally unfussy cations
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EPA's new research chief installed after long delay
Yale chemist Paul Anastas, the father of green chemistry, overcomes political roadblocks to become EPA science adviser
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First sugars needed silicates to survive
Stabilising silicate ions might have helped the sugars in RNA to form in prebiotic organic synthesis
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Merck joins the cost-cutting crowd
Following its merger with Schering-Plough, Merck & Co. has announced a 'merger restructuring plan' that will see 17,500 jobs cut
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Europe's new research commissioner sworn in
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn will need to make good use of her advisers to offset her lack of science background
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New scheme to boost bio-based chemistry
European Commission ploughs millions into scheme to encourage the chemical sector to make use of bio-based approaches such as industrial biotechnology
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Profile: The future of French science
Chemist Alain Fuchs talks of his hopes and fears in his new role as president of CNRS, France's enormous research organisation
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Decades-old meteorite gets holistic treatment
Non-targeted analytical approach uncovers chemical complexity of 40-year-old meteorite, and reveals the presence of millions of organic compounds