All articles by Chemistry World – Page 42
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Opinion
Letters: December 2007
From David Feakins Congratulations on the splendid October issue of Chemistry World. I found all the articles on the topic of energy absolutely riveting. For example, I have always been a supporter of nuclear fission as a medium-term answer to the supply of energy, but had not realised until I ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2007
Price fight over HIV drug GlaxoSmithKline has filed a lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories, claiming that its 2003 decision to increase the price of its HIV drug Norvir by 400 per cent was anticompetitive. GSK is the latest in a growing list of claimants to sue its US competitor, including four ...
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News
Energy law pushes market pricing
A draft of China's long-awaited energy law paves the way for market pricing of energy, and an energy ministry
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News
A glowing future for nanotubes
Fluorescent nanotube bundles could be used as chemical sensors or in optoelectronics
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Review
Qaulity assurance
Good clinical, laboratory and manufacturing practices: techniques for the QA professional
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Opinion
Letters: November 2007
From Alfred Bader Why do chemists refer to Avogadro’s number (Chemistry World, August 2007, p11) when, correctly, it should be called Loschmidt’s number? Amedeo Avogadro predicted in 1811 that someone, some day, would be able to calculate that number. The calculation of the number was first done by Joseph Loschmidt ...
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Business
Business roundup: November 2007
Drug marketing case sees $500m settlement Bristol-Myers Squibb will pay over half a billion dollars to settle allegations of illegal drug marketing and pricing. The ruling, announced by the US Department of justice in late September, related to accusations that BMS had inflated its drug prices, paid kickbacks ...
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Opinion
Letters: October 2007
From Geoff Cloke, Andrew Smith and Bob Allison We were astonished to read the remarks made about chemistry at the University of Sussex by Professor Sir Richard Sykes (Chemistry World, September 2007). In particular, the statement: ’If chemistry is a drain, vice-chancellors have no choice but to deal with ...
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News
India announces plans for its first nanopark
Bangalore aims to attract business in another emerging area: nanotechnology
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Business
Business roundup: October 2007
UK pharma shifts manufacturing overseas Anglo-Swedish drug firm AstraZeneca has restated its intention to outsource drug manufacturing ’where there is a sound business case’. The statement follows the publication of an interview with David Smith, AstraZeneca’s executive vice-president of operations, in The Times on 17 September. The newspaper ...
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News
News in brief: October 2007
Bees tell life story with perfumes German chemists have discovered that bees recycle lipids in order to build up a unique bouquet of smells during the course of their lives. Male orchid bees spend much of their lives collecting volatile compounds - usually terpenoids - ...
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News
No link between sick pilots and neurotoxin in jet fuel says government review panel
Insufficient evidence to support causal link, but more work needed on cabin fumes, says UK government panel
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News
China still lagging behind OECD on innovation
Shortage of science graduates threaten China's economic growth
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Podcast
September 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - September 2007 Music (Promo) Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This is the Chemistry World Podcast. (Promo ends) Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello! Welcome to the September edition of the Chemistry World podcast with Mark Peplow and James Mitchell Crow. ...