News – Page 637
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Target for memory-enhancing pills identified
Crucial enzyme changes memory-making abilities of mice
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Ultrasonic waves to power future nanomachines
Piezoelectric currents derived from flexing nanowires
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Historic sunset regained
Chemists are racing against time to recreate sunsets lost from a 19th century watercolour
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European generics suppliers hit
European patent office reinstates patent for Merck's third biggest drug, Fosamax
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Nucleic acid aids clotting
RNA proposed as mystery 'foreign surface' that mediates blood clotting in damaged tissue
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Sanofi-aventis and Oxford BioMedica enter licensing agreement
Oxford BioMedica has licensed its leading cancer drug, TroVax, to Sanofi-aventis
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The actinides, not so unpredictable after all
Theoretical framework accounts for unexpected properties of the late actinides (plutonium, americium and curium)
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New limits set on chirality
Textbooks need updating as researchers measure the spatial arrangement of the most subtly chiral molecule ever synthesised
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NewsRoll up, roll up! Flexible electronic displays come to town
Flexible electronic displays are finally racing to be first to bring their products to mass market
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Business
Business roundup: April 2007
Pharma’s house of cards Anglo-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca has announced plans to cut roughly 700 jobs at its site in Macclesfield, UK. A further 850 staff will go at Swedish production facilities. The news marks the first step in the implementation of the company’s plans to cut 3000 jobs from ...
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Harmonising pharmaceutical quality worldwide
All change at the European Pharmacopoeia, the Strasbourg-based organisation responsible for European pharmaceutical quality standards
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Termites' enzyme anomaly
Termites rely on symbiotic bacteria to digest cellulose, so why do they digest some cellulose themselves?
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World's smallest bowl of 'alphabet soup'
A suspension of microscopic letters marks a key step towards complex engineering on the nanoscale.
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NewsPollens reveal origins of terracotta army
Scientists put ancient clay figures under the microscope