All articles by Chemistry World – Page 28
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Business
Business roundup: September 2010
Falling sales at Johnson & Johnson ’s (J&J) consumer healthcare division have hurt the pharma giant’s US sales, which fell 2.8 per cent compared to the same period last year. Globally, sales for the company’s consumer goods division fell 5.4 per cent to $3.6 billion (£2.3 billion) - ...
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Podcast
August 2010
Chemistry World Podcast - August 201000:12- Introduction01:31- First graphene touch screen 03:10- Microspheres help restore eyesight 06:08- Miles Congreve from Heptares Therapeutics talks about targeting G-protein-coupled receptors to develop new therapeutics ...
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Opinion
Letters: August 2010
I was interested to read Philip Ball’s piece on the automated future of chemical crystallography, based on work at St Andrew’s University, Scotland, UK, to develop an entirely automatic diffractometer capable of ’flexible thinking’ designed to mimic the thought process of a crystallographer (Chemistry World, June 2010, p34). While this ...
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Business
Business roundup: August 2010
Bittersweet victory for GSK’s Avandia GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received a muted ’thumbs up’ from a US regulatory advisory panel for its much-maligned Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), making it likely the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow the UK-based pharma giant to continue selling the drug in ...
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News
Microspheres help restore eyesight
Polymer microspheres could deliver stem cells to the eyes of patients to help restore sight destroyed by a common eye disease
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Opinion
Letters: July 2010
Like Pickard (Chemistry World, May 2010, p40), I am disappointed that the BBC did not find a chemist to present Chemistry: a volatile history, but I am not amazed that a physicist, Jim Al-Khalili, ’made an excellent job of it’. After all, chemistry is a physical science. The Royal Society ...
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Business
Business roundup: July 2010
Eight convicted for Bhopal disaster More than 25 years after one of the worst industrial accidents in living memory, the Magistrate’s court in Bhopal, India, has convicted eight former Union Carbide employees of ’causing death by criminal negligence’. The eight convicted include Keshub Mahindra, former chairman of the Indian subsidiary ...
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Opinion
Letters: June 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Royal Society's King Charles II medal