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News
Cheap and efficient artificial leaf debuted
MIT researchers say they can make artificial leaves for less than $50 each
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Opinion
Letters: April 2011
With regard to your piece on 60 years of innovation (Chemistry World, March 2011, p38). Can I put in a plea for recognition of the pioneering work carried out in the UK on liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in the years following 1970. Following some early work on displays in the ...
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Business
Business roundup: April 2011
Pharmaceutical Forest pays $1.2bn for Clinical Data US pharma company Forest Laboratories has agreed to buy Clinical Data for $30 (£19) per share in cash, equivalent to $1.2 billion, plus $6 per share payable if Viibryd (vilazodone) reaches commercial milestones. Forest intends to use existing cash to finance the deal. ...
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Microfluidics to diagnose sleeping sickness
An understanding of the physics of particle sorting can help separate parasites from blood for clearer analysis
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Scientists in Slovakia campaign against diversion of funding
Thousands of people in Slovakia sign a petition to stop €120 million of EU science money going awry
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Podcast
March 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - March 20111.22: Cells as test tubes3.29: Electrons charge down DNA molecular wire5.58: Kenneth Dawson on the challenges and success stories of nanotechnology12.33: Pig power for batteries14.35: BSE pathogens passed on by air 16.38: Joe Thornton on resurrecting ancient proteins to understand how they have evolved to ...
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News
Seaweed recruited in fight against malaria
Natural products from Fijian red seaweed have shown remarkable anti-malarial properties
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Opinion
Letters: March 2011
David Jones in ’Sparks of illumination’ (Chemistry World, January 2011, p80) lists three sparkers: iron, titanium and cerium, but he does not refer to the actinide metals, neither does he refer to pyrite, FeS2. The name pyrite is derived from the Greek in allusion to the sparks emitted when it ...
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Business
Business roundup: March 2011
Venom kits for drug discovery research Drug discovery companies can now buy venom kits to help them find new avenues of investigation by high throughput screening. Each kit from Swiss company Bachem is a plate with a series of wells - each well contains peptide fragments from the venoms ...
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News
Repairing faulty genes
New compounds stop the premature interruption of protein production, a cause of diseases
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Podcast
February 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - February 20111:22 -Einstein in your engine3:20 -Silk woven into transistors5:30 -Joseph Jasinski from IBM on harnessing the power of your desktop PC to solve big scientific problems13:08 -Using HIV against itself16:39 -Microfluidic pinball 19:50 -Joe Jones from Skyonic on turning CO2 from power plants into baking ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2011
With the climate change problem increasing by the day, the apparent lack of urgency exemplified by the European Union’s renewable energy programme (Chemistry World, December 2010, p8), with the ’first allocations of funding in the second half of 2012’ is surely disturbing. The longer we delay, the more the ’catch-up’ ...
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News
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates
Aaron Ciechanover tells us why Charles Darwin is his hero in chemistry