News – Page 712
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Outsourcing - now's the time
As companies increasingly begin to turn outside for help to support their activities.
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Cholesterol drug dilemma
A current topic of hot debate in the medical field is the efficacy of cholesterol-lowering drugs in prolonging life. Lalitha Gopinath looks at the drugs available, and the evidence put forward to demonstrate their effectiveness.
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Bouncing to a Nobel prize
Sir Harold Kroto has scored a chemistry Nobel prize for Britain for his pivotal role in discovering 'buckyballs', Richard Stevenson reports.
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Processing on a chip
According to Derek Craston and Simon Cowen, advances in microengineering are resulting in smaller, cheaper and faster instruments that promise to revolutionise the way we carry out analyses.
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Designs on C60
Cath O'Driscoll takes a look at what's in store for the evolving field of fullerene chemistry, and talks to one of its founders, Sir Harold Kroto.
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BSE: the role of the 'infectious chemical'
Prions have been in the news constantly this year, thanks to the series of 'mad cow' scares.