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October 2011
This week on Chemistry World
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Chemistry World’s round-up of money and molecules
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Cancer trial ends early for Bayer – Slashing industry’s water bills – And AkzoNobel to expand in China (more…)
Chemistry World’s round-up of money and molecules
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Novartis to cut jobs and close more sites – Lilly withdraws sepsis drug – And China moves to protect its caprolactam industry (more…)
Chemistry in its element – aspirin
Posted by Phillip on Wed 26 Oct 2011Categories: News , Podcasts | No Comments

Why would a drug feature in the treaty that ended the first world war? And what made aspirin so successful as a painkiller? Brian Clegg explains in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.
Mummy mania on the small screen
Posted by Laura on Tue 25 Oct 2011Categories: Forensics , News | No Comments
— Mummifying Alan
Last night I was sitting on my sofa when up popped someone I recognised. Stephen Buckley from the University of York was on Channel 4 talking about his work on mummification. Earlier this year we published a feature looking at the chemistry of mummification, which is some great background to the documentary. But the program was a bit different, this was putting Buckley’s findings to the test on a real human cadaver. Alan, a taxi driver from Torquay, who had terminal lung cancer. Alan answered a classified ad in the paper and left his body to a rather interesting form of science. (more…)
This week on Chemistry World
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Chemistry World’s round-up of money and molecules
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FDA chemist insider trading admission – Pharma industry needs to win back trust – And DuPont takes Monsanto to court over seed patents (more…)
Chemistry in its element – vanillin
Posted by Phillip on Wed 19 Oct 2011Categories: News , Podcasts | No Comments

How posh is your ice-cream? Does it have the tell-tale specks of real vanilla seeds, or is it a synthetic vanilla flavour. Simon Cotton uncovers how to tell the difference in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.
Chemistry World’s round-up of money and molecules
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ACC asks FDA for changes to BPA regulation – Roche buys Anadys to strengthen hepatitis C position – And a definition of ‘nanomaterial’ from the EU (more…)
This week on Chemistry World
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