Chemistry World April 2008

April 2008

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April 2008

News and analysis

World's largest thermochemical solar hydrogen plant opens

Pittcon 2008, New Orleans, US

27 February 2008

Bold vision for MIT's rival now pared down to a 3-million-euro administrative centre

13 March 2008

Scientists with US PhDs no longer to face criminal charges for using the title 'Dr'

25 March 2008

More Indian scientists caught up in Chiranjeevi scandal

There are always uncertainties when animal studies are extrapolated into human effects

12 March 2008

UK Chancellor announces money for SMEs and school science but abolishes biofuel subsidy

04 March 2008

Letters reveal ACC pushed for 'biased' chairwoman of scientific panel to go

Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics will boost 'Solar Valley'

07 March 2008

Pharmaceutical price regulation scheme will be replaced by more stringent controls

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Genentech/Roche medicine Avastin for treatment of late-stage breast cancer

Antidepressant drugs have been caught in the eye of two separate media storms over the past month

Industry news

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New products, April 2008

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Chemical science

10 March 2008

Promising results for microbicide tenofovir after a string of failures

22 February 2008

Magnetic nanoparticles key to detecting heavy metals in minutes

28 February 2008

Donut-shaped molecule takes a surprisingly tight grip on chloride

25 February 2008

Chemists find the final piece to a 70-year-old puzzle

25 February 2008

Survey of 2500 compounds uncovers surprising effects on mitochondria

06 March 2008

New, artificial catalysts not quite up to nature's standard

05 March 2008

Gel-based capsules that can be individually opened with a precisely aimed blast from a laser could be a new way to control reactions or deliver drugs

11 March 2008

An unusual iron complex may lead to better ways of producing ammonia

26 February 2008

Heavy isotopes in your tresses reveal where you live

03 March 2008

Metal sulfide removes radioactive strontium from a mix of ions

06 March 2008

Dutch scientists have copied nature to develop a faster and more efficient method for mixing small volumes of liquid.

22 February 2008

Fingernail clippings could be used in forensic studies and diagnostics, say scientists in Singapore.

05 March 2008

Drug labelled with radioactive arsenic could spot even the smallest tumours

10 March 2008

Optical tweezers help scientists watch a ribosome move along a strand of RNA making protein

21 February 2008

Researchers have determined how much force is needed to drag a single atom across a surface

22 February 2008

Canadian scientists have pioneered an efficient rhodium-catalysed way to make lactones

06 March 2008

The world's oceans: an underexploited resource for potential new drugs?

04 March 2008

The decline of decaying paintings could be reversed thanks to a new technique from German scientists

13 February 2008

Scientists have found a practical, cheap and environmentally friendly way of producing the industrially important metal niobium.

18 March 2008

Marta Mas-Torrent and Concepci� Rovira look at how small molecules can be used as processable semiconductors

Chinese news supplement

Polluters could be denied loans in latest moves to reduce emissions

26 March 2008

China to spend over a billion dollars on improving crop yield, nutrition and drought resistance

11 March 2008

Combining efforts on climate change could open huge market opportunities

20 March 2008

Ground-breaking report maps pollution in unprecedented detail

18 March 2008

Soluble iridium complex brings larger display screen a step closer

Quick and easy route to tiny silver plates

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Features

Has malaria finally met its scientific match? Victoria Gill finds out whether a fresh round of research funding could put an end to the killer disease