All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 39
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BusinessBayer–Monsanto merger momentum
US antitrust regulators approve Bayer’s $66bn takeover of Monsanto, conditional on the company offloading $9bn in assets
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BusinessUS chemical safety agency wants Arkema disaster to spark real change
Industry guidance is needed to help hazardous chemical facilities better prepare for extreme weather events like flooding, the CSB warns
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NewsClaims of spike in US animal testing for new chemicals disputed
Animal rights groups find that Environmental Protection Agency animal tests jumped nine-fold
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BusinessUS senators launch probe of Novartis’ payments to Trump lawyer
Congress demands info from Novartis about its $1.2m in outflows to Michael Cohen, just as it was negotiating payments for its cancer drug
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BusinessTrump lays out plan to slash drug costs
White House strategy to reduce pharmaceutical prices faces backlash from the industry, which cautions against the ‘far-reaching’ proposals
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NewsHawaii set for first ever ban on two sunscreen ingredients
Coral protection bill that bans sunscreens with oxybenzone and octinoxate expected to be signed into law shortly
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NewsEvidence of gender bias found in peer review
Men were more likely to secure health research grants than women in Canadian study
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NewsChemistry professor freed but still faces deportation from US
Bangladeshi chemistry instructor who spent almost two months in jail for overstaying his US visa now awaits a final deportation decision
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NewsResearchGate reaches deal with science publishers
Under a new agreement, the networking site will share which content it is hosting from three publishers
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NewsMardi Grass
The cannabis chemistry subdivision of the American Chemical Society takes to the streets of New Orleans
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BusinessChemicals caught in the middle as tariffs loom
America’s chemicals and plastics industry stands to lose $5bn if US–China dispute escalates
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NewsChaos at US government’s research integrity office
The dramatic drop in misconduct findings from the Office of Research Integrity in the last two years has been blamed on turmoil at the agency
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NewsFallout from rogue US forensic chemist continues
Massachusetts’ highest court has dismissed more than 11,000 drug convictions due to serious misconduct by a drug lab chemist
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NewsProtein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
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NewsUN’s non-toxic targets unlikely to be achieved
The United Nations’ goal of achieving a ‘poison-free environment’ by 2020 won’t be met, Sweden’s chemicals agency warns
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ResearchZeolite filters out carcinogens to make tastier smoked foods
Technology can remove up to 93% of polyaromatic hydrocarbons produced by the smoking process
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NewsGraduate student population experiencing mental health ‘crisis’
Among graduate trainees surveyed by US researchers, 41% had anxiety and 39% were depressed
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NewsCheap airfares fuel scientific partnerships
Chemistry collaborations jump 36% when US discount airline establishes a new route, international team finds
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ResearchNanoparticle fertilisers show promise
Overuse of traditional chemicals could be tackled using nanotech
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OpinionFrances Arnold: 'I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world'
This revolutionary engineer loves to walk, travel, and learn from nature