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June 30, 2008
Materials Matter
Quirky library bridges the gap between matter and design
Inventing Drugs For The Chinese People
Major generics producer aims to develop affordable innovative drugs for Chinese patients
Business Concentrates
June 23, 2008
Making More in America
Cambridge Major is moving up to commercial-scale production of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Capturing Carbon
Novomer aims to turn carbon dioxide into something useful
Business Concentrates
June 16, 2008
Silicones Establish Pervasive Presence
Panorama study tracks importance of sector throughout European industrial and consumer world
A Short Era Ends
CEO Gerard will leave the American Chemistry Council stronger but less popular with the public
Business Concentrates
- Government
June 30, 2008
Congress Debates Chemical Security
Panel argues over regulating chemicals at water treatment plants, requiring safer technologies
Numbers Shrink At Weapons Labs
Congressional budget cuts, downsizing hit scientists
Government & Policy Concentrates
June 23, 2008
Tougher Tank Cars
Shippers say federal plan to boost safety of hazmat rail transport needs more work
Congress Addresses Nanotechnology
Bill reauthorizes federal initiative to monitor and guide R&D in emerging area
Government & Policy Concentrates
June 16, 2008
Help For New Researchers Sought
Report focuses on grants for early-career faculty and transformative research
Insights: The Funding Game
Tight federal dollars make it difficult to find any real winners
Government & Policy Concentrates
- Science and Technology
June 30, 2008
Battle Of The 'Functionals'
New tools fix many problems with density functional theory, but which one is best?
Science & Technology Concentrates
June 23, 2008
Electron Microscopy For Chemists
Advances in imaging and elemental analysis move TEM toward the realm of analytical chemistry
A Fat Chance to Cure Cancer
Blocking fatty acid assembly is a potential strategy against disease
Molecular Cage May Contain ... Nothing
Self-assembled prisms may enclose empty spaces rather than solvent
Inside Instrumentation
Technology and Business news for the laboratory world
Science & Technology Concentrates
June 16, 2008
Fraud Busters
New tools emerge for detecting and weeding out plagiarism and data falsification in journal articles
DNA Repair Mechanism Probed
Single-molecule methods, crystallography reveal surprises about strand-swapping process
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July 3, 2008
Compact Bulbs Made Safer
Selenium sorbent lowers risk of mercury exposure from light bulbs.
July 2, 2008
Ionic-Liquid Solar Cells
Blending solids leads to stable ionic liquid and efficient energy conversion device.
Microspheres Read DNA Microarrays
Electrostatic repulsion detects DNA pairing.
July 1, 2008
Kyoto Prize Goes To Anthony Pawson
Canadian scientist will receive $460,000 for pioneering work on cell signaling.
Dunking Doughnuts Into Cells
Doughnut-shaped polymeric particles could be used as cellular tags and for drug delivery.
Global Trade Talks Revived
Chemical manufacturers seek tariff elimination in multilateral Doha deal.
June 30, 2008
Mesoporous Metals
Self-assembly steers platinum nanoparticles to form large-pore metallic structures.
Constructing Cyanthiwigin F
Enantioselective double alkylation is key to engineering marine natural product's chiral core.
Fine-Tuning Catalysts
Electron donors control geometry of Ziegler-Natta structures.
June 27, 2008
Mars Soil pH Measured
Phoenix lander’s chemistry ‘lab’ finds soil is alkaline, friendly to life
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