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Business
Business roundup: April 2007
Pharma’s house of cards Anglo-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca has announced plans to cut roughly 700 jobs at its site in Macclesfield, UK. A further 850 staff will go at Swedish production facilities. The news marks the first step in the implementation of the company’s plans to cut 3000 jobs from ...
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News
Testing times for 'mega-pharma'
Industry experts address what can be done to stop big pharma from engineering its own demise.
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News
Akzo Nobel sells medicines business to Schering Plough
Organon, the pharmaceuticals and animal health business, has been sold for 11 billion euros (£7.5 billion).
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Opinion
Letters: March 2007
From Clive Delmonte Sir John O’Reilly’s comment on peer review covers many pertinent points, but I feel there is a further crucial aspect to consider (Chemistry World, February 2007, p36). The accepted paradigms in science are that non-experts defer to the opinion of experts, while the experts ...
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Podcast
March 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - March 2007(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemistry World Podcast.(End Promo)Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello and welcome to episode 6 of the Chemistry World podcast with editor, Mark Peplow... Interviewee - Mark PeplowHello!Interviewer - Chris SmithScience correspondent Richard Van Noorden... Interviewee - ...
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Business
Business roundup: March 2007
Novartis contests India’s patent law Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is suing the Indian government for contravening international patent agreements. The company accuses the Indian government of failing to comply with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules after it refused to grant the company a patent on its cancer drug ...
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Podcast
February 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - February 2007(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemistry World Podcast.(End Promo)Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello and welcome to episode 5 of the Chemistry World podcast with me Chris Smith, with Editor, Mark Peplow... Interviewee -Mark PeplowHello!Interviewer - Chris SmithAnd science correspondents, Victoria ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2007
New chief to lead safety drive Will the arrival of Lord Browne’s replacement mean an end to BP’s troubles? This month marked the climax of a tough period for the UK oil giant. An independent panel, led by former US Secretary of State James Baker, published the findings ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2007
From Peter Swindells I must disagree with my former colleague Roger Lintonbon that marine organisms can provide a sink for increasing levels of carbon dioxide (Chemistry World, January 2007, p34). Increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide does not lead to increased phytoplankton growth because it is not carbon ...
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Podcast
January 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - January 2007(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemistry World Podcast.(End Promo)Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello Happy New Year and welcome to the Chemistry World podcast episode number 4 with Chemistry World's Editor Mark Peplow... Interviewee -Mark PeplowHello! Interviewer - ...
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News
Instant insight: Venomous drugs?
Elba Villegas and Gerardo Corzo, biotechnology researchers at the Universidad Autonóma del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Mexico, set the record straight about spiders
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Opinion
Letters: January 2007
From Richard Schmidt Horst Hippler asks why most natural amino acids are l and most natural sugars d (Chemistry World, October 2006, p22). The answer to this question might already have been answered: selection for these enantiomers has been driven by a fundamental property of interfacial (or vicinal) water. Philippa ...