All articles by Sarah Houlton – Page 5
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FeatureTriple-stranded success story
Tom Brown is our Entrepreneur of the Year. He tells Sarah Houlton the secrets of his success
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CareersRemote possibilities
Now you can graduate in drug discovery without ever leaving the house, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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FeatureScience at your fingertips
Will the rise of smartphones revolutionise chemistry? Sarah Houlton finds out
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BusinessMegamerger brings Actavis into R&D race
$25bn Forest Labs takeover will see generics giant take on patented products
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CareersThe pain killer
Life is pretty painless working in Reckitt Benckiser’s Nurofen team, Sarah Houlton learns
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BusinessMis-selling lands J&J with $2.2bn fine
Company found guilty of promoting three drugs for unapproved uses
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CareersThe plastics surgeon
Sarah Houlton takes a ‘Peek’ at the career of polymer chemist Alice Matthews
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BusinessPharma manufacturing woes dog industry
Regulators are stepping up inspections, and discovering ever more problems
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Business
Amgen snaps up Onyx in huge biotech deal
$10.4 billion acquisition will expand firm’s oncology portfolio
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CareersLearn to speak engineering
Chemists and chemical engineers are two groups separated by a common science. Sarah Houlton looks at a course that’s bridging the gap
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CareersGoing with the flow chemistry
Elizabeth Farrant climbed to the top in big pharma, but now she’s working at a smaller scale, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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NewsUS supreme court rules genes can't be patented
Breast cancer test company at centre of case can still rely on patents on non-naturally occurring DNA
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Business
GSK fires Chinese R&D head in data investigation
Company is retracting a 2010 study in which data were ‘misrepresented’
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FeatureNo small success
Chad Mirkin has spun out his nanotechnology research into several companies
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BusinessThermo Fisher to buy Life Technologies in $15.8bn deal
Equipment suppliers unite, bringing Thermo into life sciences and sequencing markets
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BusinessIndia rejects Novartis patent appeal
Supreme court uphold decision to refuse protection for Glivec
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CareersChemdoodler draws on chemistry
Kevin Theisen’s software is used by scientists all over the world. Sarah Houlton learns why he moved from the chemistry programme to chemistry programmer
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Business2012 pharma industry roundup
What were the bigger stories? And how did the industry fare overall?
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CareersOf castes and chemistry
From southern India to Northern Ireland, Geetha Srinivasan has been applying her research to solving real world problems, as Sarah Houlton finds out