All Columns articles – Page 47
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OpinionA mind-blowing legacy
Alexander Shulgin’s research on psychoactive drugs shows how molecules can take on a life of their own once they leave the lab, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionHow good do you want it?
Quality analysis is a very different ball game to a simple reaction check, says Chemjobber
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OpinionIt belongs to the people
How Marie Curie’s desire to share her science for the common good priced her out of the game
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – big, big pharma
Aventis accepted a takeover bid from French rival Sanofi Synthélabo, creating the world’s third largest pharma giant
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OpinionMessy megamergers
Big company buyouts are more about immediate gains and rarely consider the impact on research, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionWe need to talk about Nagoya
Darren Smyth explains why the Nagoya Protocol could become a problem for European research
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OpinionIs junk DNA all garbage?
A brouhaha in biology shows that uncovering what we don’t know is more important than arguments about what we do, says Philip Ball
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OpinionIt's life, but not as we know it
A living cell that uses artificial bases in its DNA heralds a profound development for chemistry, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionMandelalide A
New reactions need to belong in a synthesis, says BRSM, not be forced in for show
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OpinionThe wisdom of clouds
Kai Kohlhoff discusses the promise and pitfalls of doing science with distributed computing
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Opinion
Indigo and Indian independence
Until Gandhi intervened in 1917, farmers were forced to grow indigo and cash crops instead of food crops
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OpinionEngineering serendipity
It takes more than random stumbling to find new reactions, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionFrack and blue
Shale gas will do little to improve the competitiveness of Europe’s chemical industry, argues Mark Peplow
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – love for the library
The Royal Society of Chemistry gave members access to the Knovel library
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OpinionStrength in numbers
For all the value it provides, analytical chemistry doesn’t get the recognition it deserves, say Mark Powell and Steven Lancaster