All articles by Emma Davies – Page 6
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Screw caps extend sauvignon shelf life
Screw caps are better than corks at preserving the fruity bouquet of sauvignon blanc wines, report researchers in New Zealand.
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The Sanger success story
Double Nobel prize-winner Fred Sanger recalls his days in the lab, attributing his success to the time he spent at the bench. Emma Davies reports
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Robots with a sensitive touch
Organic transistors with pressure sensors prepare the way for artificial skin.
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Obesity gets up your nose
Desperate dieters may find that a new anti-obesity treatment is not to be sniffed at.
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Green challenge rewarded
Many companies wishing to become more sustainable choose to go along the route of solvent reduction.
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Bell labs moves to Ireland
Bell Labs, the research arm of US firm Lucent Technologies, is setting up a research centre in Dublin, Ireland.
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Making allowances for anthrax
Crystal structure brings researchers closer to using anthrax to fight cancer.
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Ilika sets sail from Southampton
Southampton University, UK, is spinning out a new combinatorial chemistry company called Ilika.
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A future in fragments
Astex's research on drug fragments is taking it deep into the oncology field, as Emma Davies finds out.
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Protein joins the flab fight
An Imperial College London research team has signed a licensing deal with CytRx.
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Belgian firm to buy Celltech
Celltech has accepted a cash offer from UCB, a Belgian pharmaceutical and chemical company, which values the UK biotechnology firm at about £1.53bn.
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Cutting back on chippy chemical
The global fight against possible carcinogen in foods intensifies.
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New UK biocentre almost ready to open its doors
After much planning, a new Centre of Excellence in Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture.
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Aerosol story gets new angle
US researchers discover role of aromatic acids in particle formation.
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Reaching for an opportunity
The UK chemical industry should see the impending Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) legislation as 'an opportunity, not a threat'.
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Robins spark a pigment of the imagination
Evidence suggests that radical-pair theory guides migratory birds on their way.