All articles by Chemistry World – Page 49
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News
Ethicist approves performance enhancing drugs
A leading ethicist has questioned the value of banning some of the sports drugs listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Opinion
Letters: June 2006
From Sir Harry Kroto Fundamental advances in the chemical sciences are today more vital than in any other area for survival of the human race and the sustainability of our modern way of life. The chemical sciences underpin, in the most fundamental ways, the cutting edge areas of ...
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Business
Business roundup: June 2006
Leading lab suppliers merge Analytical instrument firm Thermo Electron and chemical manufacturer Fisher Scientific have agreed a merger deal, aiming to become ’the leading provider of laboratory products and services in the high-growth life, laboratory and health sciences industry’. Thermo, the smaller of the two US companies, will acquire ...
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Brazil and UK team up
Brazil is 'ready and mature' to join the international science arena, according to the Brazilian science minister
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Budget shortfall threatens FP7
EU research investment from 2007 to 2013 will fall ?20 billion short of previous agreements.
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Back in time for CW reporter
Familiar face returns Robert Hooke's long-lost notes to the Royal Society in London
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Business
Business roundup: May 2006
Budget brings UK science to the fore Science and technology in the UK was prioritised in the country’s annual budget announcement, which also suggests that the way science is funded though the research assessment exercise (RAE) is about to be scrapped. The chancellor said an extra £1 ...
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Opinion
Letters: May 2006
From Michael Archer In response to points raised in the news item entitled Australian chemistry department under threat (Chemistry World online, 23 March 2006; p10), I strenuously deny that any ’budget bungle’ has occurred, as the academic staff union emotively and incorrectly claims. Rather, the restructuring of the school ...
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Europe strives to allay GM fears
European plans for 'improving scientific consistency and transparency' on GM crops has prompted a guarded response.
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Update: Europe tightens fluorinated gas restrictions
A furious row has stalled plans for further restrictions on use of fluorinated gases in the European Union.
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Knowledge transfer partnership awards
Analytical chemists, counterfeit checkers, and a pharmaceutical scientist form an award-winning partnership.