FDA approves skin cancer drug Zelboraf – Pfizer site at Sandwich becomes part of new ’Enterprise Zone’ – And vaccine markets on the up (more…)
August 2011
Monthly Archive
Chemistry World's round-up of money and molecules
Posted by Josh on Fri 19 Aug 2011Categories: The Commercial Chemist | No Comments
Chemistry in the national student survey
Posted by Josh on Wed 17 Aug 2011Categories: News | 1 Comment
The results of this year’s National Student Survey, published today, show that the employment prospects for chemistry graduates are mixed. While around 80 per cent of chemistry graduates from ’top’ universities like Durham, Imperial and Oxford quickly find good jobs, the results are worse elsewhere. The figures appear to be worrying for the University of Edinburgh and University College London, from which only just over half of graduates were in appropriate level jobs six months after completing their courses. (more…)
Chemistry World's round up of money and molecules
Posted by Andrew on Wed 17 Aug 2011Categories: The Commercial Chemist | No Comments
US targets Belarusian industry with sanctions – Cargill grabs Provimi for €1.5 billion – And Pfizer fends off generic Viagra…for now (more…)
Chemistry in its element – glucose
Posted by Elinor on Wed 17 Aug 2011Categories: News , Podcasts | No Comments
Phillip Broadwith talks about one of life’s energy sources and explains its connection with diabetes in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast
Fierce debate has erupted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) over a phenomenon known as the anomeric effect. The controversy reminds us once again that while observations are usually verifiable, interpreting results is something all scientists need to play a part in. (more…)
This week on Chemistry World
Posted by Chemistry World on Mon 15 Aug 2011Categories: News | [4] Comments
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Preventing a broken heart with an electronic tattoo
Posted by Patrick on Fri 12 Aug 2011Categories: News | 1 Comment
A flexible biomedical future?
One day a trip to hospital could mean that you need to get a tattoo. That’s the vision of John Rogers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, whose team has developed a flexible temporary electronic ‘tattoo’ that can measure heart rate and other vital signs. The temporary tattoo is just as flexible as skin and should improve a patient’s comfort in hospital by freeing them from being attached to bulky monitoring equipment.
Back in October, Rogers’s team made flexible LEDs and implanted these under the skin of mice, as a prelude to making biomedical devices. They’ve now taken their flexible electronics idea one step further and produced a simple device that that can perform a whole array of tasks, without even needing to be implanted. (more…)
Chemistry World’s round up of money and molecules
Posted by Andrew on Fri 12 Aug 2011Categories: The Commercial Chemist | No Comments
UK energy-from-waste plant – Personalised asthma care shows promise – And Pfizer starts paying out for Trovan incident (more…)
Algae-derived biodiesel flying high
Posted by Elinor on Thu 11 Aug 2011Categories: News | No Comments
Two weeks ago, we read about agave as an alternative feedstock to corn or sugarcane in the production of bioethanol fuel in Mike’s story Tequila for your fuel tank. In it, Mike describes research by David King from the Low Carbon Mobility Centre at the University of Oxford and his team.
At the same time, King’s team has been busy putting research together to show that algae-derived biodiesel ‘could be the answer to the fossil fuel crisis’. Indeed, airlines have already been testing a range of biofuels in their planes, including algal-derived biofuels. (more…)
Chemistry World's round up of money and molecules
Posted by Andrew on Wed 10 Aug 2011Categories: The Commercial Chemist | 1 Comment
Fire at the Novartis site in Horsham, UK – A new rare earth mine in Australia – And China cracks down on food safety violations (more…)
