All articles by Chemistry World – Page 21
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Podcast
February 2012
Chemistry World podcast - February 20121.07 - Determining the age of bloodstains using fluorescence 3.51 - Magnetic nanoparticles to remove cadmium from blood 6.07 - Paul Bertsch discusses using worms to investigate the effects of silver nanoparticles in the environment12.12 - Controlling termite populations with nanoparticle technology15.04 - Listening to ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2012
In his comment article, David Fox (Chemistry World, January 2012, p42) highlights the importance of having access to a well-curated repository of small molecules for drug discovery (and chemical genomics), but he feels that it is important to ’combine a well-validated target with a means of intervention that minimises attrition ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2012
Pharmaceutical BMS spends $2.5 billion on antiviral firm Pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has struck a deal to buy US biotech Inhibitex for $2.5 billion (?1.6 billion). The move will stock BMS’s pipeline with antivirals, most notably INX-189, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor which is in Phase II trials for treating ...
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News
Note book: February 2012
Toxic release inventory 2010 The latest Toxic release inventory shows levels of toxins released into the US environment up for 2010 compared with the previous two years, but lower than for 2007. The report, published annually by the Environmental Protection Agency, shows that the increase is mainly due ...
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News
Controlling termites with nanoparticles
Silica nanoparticles could help exterminate entire termite colonies
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Podcast
January 2012
Chemistry World podcast - January 2012 1:05- Caffeine content of high-street espressos5:08- A zombie reaction rises from the dead7:53- Antony Williams discusses collating chemical data and the ChemSpider database14:57- Crab shell used to create a transparent plastic17:40- A homonuclear diatomic molecule with a permanent dipole21:53- US Army research chemist Jesse ...
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Opinion
Letters: January 2012
Why is Chemistry World so shy about showing the language of chemistry on its pages? We do after all possess, along with music, one of the most efficient notations ever invented. So, in the latest edition I was very interested to see an article on marine adhesives (Chemistry World, Dec ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2012
Pharmaceutical Mental health drug use up More than one fifth of adults in the US took a mental health drug of some kind in 2010, according to a new report. The authors from Medco Health Solutions, a US pharmacy services company, found that use was higher for women than for ...
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News
Interview Yongyuth Yuthavong
Yongyuth Yuthavong discusses the challenges that face scientists in Thailand with Kathleen Too
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News
EU pays a heavy price for air pollution
Air pollution from the 10,000 largest industrial facilities cost the region as much as 169 billion euros in 2009
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Opinion
Letters: December 2011
Metals and metalloid elements in the environment have a major impact on human, animal and plant life as seen in the recent Hungarian red mud catastrophe. Some elements like calcium, iron, zinc etc serve as essential nutrients without which life fails to thrive, whereas lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, antimony and ...