Chemistry World March 2008

March 2008

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March 2008

News and analysis

08 February 2008

Bumper opium harvest fires debate over licensed production

05 February 2008

After cuts in 2008, plans to double budget revived

25 January 2008

Bumper grants to cover infrastructure costs means fewer projects

15 February 2008

Solid growth for chemicals sector contrasts with pharmaceutical woes

06 February 2008

Political row erupts after DOE decides to pull out of flagship clean coal plant

29 January 2008

Doubt over German and UK funding for the upgrade of ESRF

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have recently stepped up efforts to monitor the potential impacts of nanotechnology on the environment and public health

23 January 2008

Pioneers of single molecule spectroscopy jointly recognised by award

22 January 2008

Agency pushes ahead as publishers warn mandatory policy will disrupt peer review

14 February 2008

Chemist Howard Alpert on what lies ahead for Canada's new science council

Eighty years ago a mouldy Petri dish changed the face of medicine, and Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin spurred a golden age of antibiotic research

30 January 2008

A spray to protect crop yields in drought- and heat-stressed plants may be available in two years

A large-scale clinical study of diabetes treatments has found no evidence to link GlaxoSmithKline's type 2 diabetes drug Avandia

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Chemical science

18 February 2008

Surgeons and climbers could benefit from new materials inspired by gecko's feet

04 February 2008

Biodegradable scaffold made with supercritical solvents mends broken bones in mice

11 February 2008

Nestl� researchers have developed a robot that can predict the taste of coffee within minutes

11 February 2008

New catalysts to simplify and clean up routes to useful chemicals

01 February 2008

Sequencing DNA could become as simple as 'reading a barcode at the supermarket'

05 February 2008

US chemists have reproduced a 90-year old experiment to settle a 50-year old controversy

07 February 2008

An inorganic capsule that could be used to study cell functions has been developed by a team of German and US scientists

04 February 2008

Trifunctional organocatalysts that closely mimic natural enzymes can significantly increase reaction rates, say chemists in Japan

24 January 2008

Studies question calcium supplements and drug benefits

07 February 2008

Unique polymer used to make updatable holographic display

04 February 2008

Dynamic structures could be drug-delivery vessels

06 February 2008

Polish chemists have demonstrated the unprecedented catalytic efficiency of olefin metathesis reactions in a water solution.

30 January 2008

Chemists looking to analyse single cells have combined lab-on-a-chip techniques with lasers to burst the cells open.

13 February 2008

Nanowire-coated thread could be spun into clothes capable of powering a mobile phone or iPod

07 February 2008

Silver hexacyanocobaltate gets shorter and fatter than any other material on heating

08 February 2008

US scientists have set DNA detection in a spin by exploiting one of nature's molecular motors.

12 February 2008

Stephen Klippenstein tells Hilary Crichton how theoretical chemistry can help solve global warming

06 February 2008

US researchers use click chemistry to measure cell proliferation

25 January 2008

A new technique can see gas reactions as they happen inside microreactors

30 January 2008

Two new techniques use DNA to build crystals of nanoparticles more easily

23 January 2008

Fuel cell converts methane to methanol at lower temperature and pressure

21 February 2008

Xiaoying Ye, Stanislav Rubakhin and Jonathan Sweedler describe fluorescent separation and electrochemical methods for detecting a crucial, but tiny, biomolecule

Chinese news supplement

12 February 2008

More powers to curb worsening pollution

Commercialise clean technologies for China's local needs

13 February 2008