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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 ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2007
BASF juggles hot potatoes German chemicals giant BASF has been courting controversy with two types of genetically modified potato. The Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) has granted permission for the company to grow its GM blight-resistant potatoes at field sites in the UK, while the European Commission ...
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Podcast
December 2006
Chemistry World Podcast - December 2006 (Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry: the Chemistry World Podcast. (promo)Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello and welcome to episode 3 of the Chemistry World podcast with me Chris Smith, with Chemistry World's Editor Mark Peplow... Interviewee - Mark ...
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Opinion
Letters: December 2006
From Paul Davies I would like to thank the readers of Chemistry World for their assistance with our survey, investigating the mechanism of hair greying (Chemistry World, September 2006, p35). Specifically we are looking at a possible link between cessation of melanogenesis in the hair follicle and the ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2006
The drugs don’t work Third quarter results from the pharmaceutical industry were marred by simultaneous admissions that promising new treatments had been withdrawn and delayed. British giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and AstraZeneca, which both reported a boost in third quarter sales, have been forced to abandon new treatments ...
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News
24 November 2006:
Year-long discussions between the European parliament and EU states have broken down.
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News
Washing machine triggers nanoparticle regulation
Anti-microbial silver nanoparticles labelled 'pesticides'
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Uniting to preserve Germany's heritage
Two of Germany's largest scientific organizations have created an alliance to better preserve and restore items of cultural significance