Long reads
Asia’s age of regulation
Safety legislation and data sharing in Asia is making progress but highlights a global challenge
Would you rent your lab equipment?
Virtual sharing and equopment loans are making access to vital research tools easier
How to become a science entrepreneur
Five tips from the experts on going it alone
Profiles
The glue entrepreneurs
The business novices who launched global sticky success Sugru
Amplifying intelligent drug design
This year’s Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year is Andrew Hopkins of start-up Exscientia and the University of Dundee, UK
Expanding precision medicine beyond cancer
Exclusive interview with Koustubh Ranade, vice president of R&D at MedImmune
Taming vaccines with chemistry
Vaxxilon aims to simplify vaccine development by replacing biological components with well-defined synthetic molecules
Opinion
Safety lessons from Hurricane Harvey
The chemical fires triggered by extreme flooding in Houston demonstrate the need to improve risk management
An opportunity ignored
Dismissing ideas that were ‘not invented here’ is like walking past a $100 bill
Crime and punishment
Are fines sufficient to prevent indiscretion?
A sensory tour of a chemical plant
The sights, sounds and smells of chemical creation
More Business News
Hurricanes’ chemical consequences
Gulf coast petrochemical plants move to restart operations, while concerns persist about the fallout from hurricane Irma
Teva sells off contraceptive device in $1.1bn deal
CooperSurgical to acquire Paragard as Teva seeks to offload assets
HB Fuller targets growth with trio of deals
Adhesives manufacturer will buy one Brazilian and two US glue companies
Takeda tightens focus on core areas with multiple deals
Japanese firm is remodelling its R&D efforts through collaboration and licensing deals, and selling off non-core businesses
FDA warns Pfizer subsidiary over Epipen malfunctions
Manufacturer did not fully investigate reports of patients dying after auto-injector failures
Eli Lilly to cut 3500 jobs
Company will close sites in US and China, and provide incentives for early retirement
Airgas fined for fatal nitrogen leak at US sperm bank
$300,000 penalty for leak caused by over-pressurisation after Airgas failed to update tank safety label
Chemical and pharma bosses quit US manufacturing council
US court denies Amgen appeal over Pfizer biosimilar
Chemical companies urged to update cyber defences
Roche offloads majority of rights to lebrikizumab
Carbon capture from air goes commercial
Bristol-Myers Squibb bags immunotherapy unicorn
Genesis Energy to buy alkali business from Tronox
GSK stops over 30 research programmes to prioritise innovation
Israeli company Haifa Chemicals shuttered
Celgene pays $280m to settle off-label marketing lawsuit
