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Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans
Nickel shapes produce specific radio signals for detailed imaging
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Deal on NHS drugs set to trim pharma industry profits
Price of branded drugs cut by two per cent and off-patent drugs to face competition from generics
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China assesses Sichuan earthquake's environmental costs
Chemical industry reconstruction and new nuclear build could be put on hold
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Reach chemicals regulation hit by computer problems
Manufacturers and distributers face 'outrageous' registration delays
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Microfluidic artistry hits the rails
Rails guide plastic parts along microfluidic channels to build complex sculptures
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Nano-embrace makes insulators conduct
The interface between adjacent crystals of two organic insulators conducts electricity like a metal
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Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover
A reaction confined to the lab for 25 years could find favour with industry after chemists retune the catalyst
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Daiichi Sankyo makes bid for Ranbaxy
Japanese firm set to take a controlling stake in India's biggest pharma company
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Olympic chemical restrictions worries industry
Controls over making and transporting chemicals ahead of the games could push up prices
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Houdini molecule escapes energy trap
Molecule hunters trap the elusive hydroxymethylene - only to see it get away
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GSK job cuts hit chemists
GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug research and development operations
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New hope for anticancer agent
Scientists have revealed how leucascandrolide A targets tumours - and found a better way to make it
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A drug for longer lashes?
A new 'cosmeceutical' to boost eyelash growth - from the maker of Botox - could take a bite out of the mascara market
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Doubts raised over vaccine boost theory
Wrong aluminium salts used in experiments to explain adjuvant effect, scientist claims
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Artificial virus silences genes
A rod-like peptide can carry RNA and drug molecules into cancer cells
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Fingerprints recovered from wiped metal
Electrostatic technique retrieves prints etched into brass by sweaty fingers
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Cheaper catalysts designed by computer
High-throughput calculations pluck out selective alloys to replace palladium
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Chemists give cautious welcome for French science reforms
Shake up promises to smash bureaucracy as CNRS divides
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Man-made protocell hosts DNA synthesis
US researchers have taken a key step towards making the first synthetic cell