All articles by James Mitchell Crow – Page 6
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Business roundup: September 2008
Agrochemicals companies make hay The booming global farming sector made agrochemicals the business to be in for chemical companies in the second quarter of 2008. The latest financial results show crop protection product sales continue to grow strongly - although earnings in other areas fared less well. US giant Dow’s ...
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Photonic crystal drug detective
High-throughput sensor quickly spots molecules that disrupt protein-DNA interactions
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Grasslands emit greenhouse gas
Plants produce significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - depending on where they are growing
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Pharma goes green to cut costs
Tight budgets see pharmaceutical firms focusing on green chemistry
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GSK job cuts hit chemists
GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug research and development operations
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New hope for anticancer agent
Scientists have revealed how leucascandrolide A targets tumours - and found a better way to make it
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A drug for longer lashes?
A new 'cosmeceutical' to boost eyelash growth - from the maker of Botox - could take a bite out of the mascara market
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Boosting the flow in pharma's pipelines
Flow chemistry is poised to become an important tool for new drug development
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Carbon Trust cuts are 'small beer'
Government-funded body is not doing enough to cut the carbon footprint of UK businesses, say MPs
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Overlooked pepper compound spices up red wine
Peppery flavour compound discovered in Australian Shiraz wines is also a key aroma molecule in peppercorns
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Drug costs cut on World Malaria Day
Novartis has reduced the price of its antimalarial drug Coartem, potentially boosting supplies to developing countries
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Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium
World's biggest supplier to re-use all its waste, thanks to humble wire mesh rings
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Guessing nature's silica secrets
Chemists have mimicked two key catalysts used by sponges and diatoms to make silica
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More to catalysis than meets the eye
Changes below the surface of a catalyst can completely change the course of a reaction, chemists have found
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Industrial-scale dendrimer production cracked
New synthetic route that delivers dendrimers in kilogram quantities could open a new branch of drug delivery and diagnostics