News January 2005
Pharmaceuticals: Spotlight on drug regulators
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to tighten drug safety following allegations that two withdrawn drugs - Merck's arthritis drug Vioxx and Bayer's cholesterol reducin...
Agriculture: Latest report fails to shift Europe's GM fears
While European Union (EU) states have backed away from overturning national bans on genetically modified (GM) crops, an independent UK project report has shown that GM herbicide-to...
Forensics: The twilight world of the clandestine chemist
In a laboratory somewhere in the north of England a distinguished analytical chemist is synthesising illegal drugs using recipes and protocols downloaded from clandestine websites ...
Molecular modelling: Collaboration mints mimetics
Synthesised protein for angiogenesis control
Synthesis: All aboard the train for Africa
Flow chemistry doesn't immediately spring to mind alongside the word Africa, but the marketing team at technology company Syriss, Royston, UK, hope to change that
Education: Cuts hit chemistry
In the closing weeks of 2004, two UK universities announced their intentions to withdraw undergraduate chemistry courses
Awards: Spinout entrepreneurs on the shortlist
Shortlist announced for Chemistry World prize
Toxicology: A whiff of controversy
Air fresheners stink - or so new research would have us believe.
Inorganic Chemistry: Medics seek fatal attraction
Magnets for cancer therapy
Turning it blue on the catwalk
The ancient art of extracting indigo from woad is being updated by biochemists
Sticky tubes? Just add water
Japanese and US researchers tackle the problems of nanotube hydrophobicity
Molecular motor turns both ways
First two-way artificial molecular motor obeys the laws of thermodynamics
Chemists probe the perils of attachment
Enzyme activity is altered when proteins are adsorbed onto carbon nanotubes
DNA damaging dots
Evidence that nanoparticles might damage DNA adds to debate
Lining up to revolutionise electronics
Dye molecules in hybrid nanomaterials are manipulated to behave like diodes
Spinning webs with microfluidics
New method mimics spiders to produce microscale fibres and tubes
Green chemistry's shining light
Using sunlight to create carbon-carbon bonds the green way
Cell jet printers
Living cells join the list of printable agents
Reading polymer chains in Reading
Sequence-recognition in synthetic chemistry akin to biological systems
Crushing resistance by destroying plasmids
Natural plasmid incompatibility could help combat antibiotic resistance
Chemists force platinum partnership
Novel compound heralds opportunities at the right hand side of the periodic table
Radioactive discharge measurement
New methods for detecting radioactive output from nuclear power stations
Liquid reaction from magnetic attraction
Moving water on the nanoscale with the help of a hand-held magnet
Optimising organic chemistry
The best way to do a reaction could be easier to work out thanks to a microreactor developed by a team of US and Swiss scientists.
Giving liquid crystals the brush-off
Polymer molecules in the shape of tiny brushes can help liquid crystals line up on a surface
Tossing Pebbles into cells
Scientists in the UK, have found a simple way to introduce sensors into cells without causing them stress
Supercritical problems dissolved
The possibility of using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) as a cheap and effective reaction medium may soon become a reality thanks to a team of UK scientists.
Chips with everything
A new way to gather chemical information quickly and cheaply has been developed by UK chemists
New, easy way to build drugs
A new class of a specific organic reaction looks set to provide a useful approach to making functionalised organic building blocks for natural products.
Spontaneous self-building silicate structures
A new way to make silicate nanoparticles that spontaneously self-assemble.
Inorganic synthesis in the spotlight
Canadian chemists are developing a new general way to make platinum-phosphorus bonds
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