All Life articles – Page 114
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Opinion
New antibiotics: what's the hold up?
It’s more a research problem, than a commercial one, says Derek Lowe
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NewsPharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs
Bioprospecting project will investigate marine organisms in the search for new antibiotics and central nervous system therapies
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FeaturePhenome Centre goes for gold
Andy Extance finds out how British researchers are turning Olympic anti-doping facilities into a world-leading facility to understand the links between metabolism, chemicals and health
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Opinion
A (chemical) potential theory of life's origin
Philip Ball says we should look beyond the molecules that make us to find the spark of life
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NewsHorse meat scare offers food for thought
Burger safety scandal highlights holes in the UK’s food testing regime
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NewsIndian supreme court’s anger over unregulated clinical trials
Tales of collusion between drug companies and regulators leads court to criticise the government
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EU food agency links pesticides to bee decline
Agency says neonicotinoids should only be used on crops bees avoid but agrichemical companies dispute its findings
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NewsSweetener in the clear once more
European food safety body finds no evidence linking aspartame to cancer or any other disease
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Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines
Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified
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OpinionMake or break: the laws of motion
Molecular machinery involves a delicate interplay of forces, but biology has found the balance, says Philip Ball
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NewsArafat exhumed in poisoning probe
An international team of scientists are taking samples from the former Palestinian leader’s body to try to discover what killed him
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FeatureBPA: friend or foe?
With media-fuelled anxiety over bisphenol A continuing to rise, Nina Notman looks beyond the headlines at this incredibly widely used polycarbonate monomer
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NewsChemistry goes into the field to battle metal theft
New DNA and metal nanoparticle technologies are helping to catch thieves that target railways, telecommunications and churches
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NewsAnalytical test for shellfish poisoning saves 14,000 mice
Liquid chromatography technique could save a million animal tests a year if rolled out globally
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NewsAcrylamide levels in food still too high, EU says
Report finds that changes to cooking practices to tackle the presence of the carcinogen are slow to materialise
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FeatureA signal honour
The 2012 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors. Phillip Broadwith looks at the molecular machinery underpinning cell signalling
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News
US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations
Massachusetts state chemist’s arrest for allegedly falsifying evidence in drug cases casts doubt on thousands of convictions
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NewsForensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice
Man held on rape charge for five months after contamination of DNA samples