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Volume 86, Number 31: August 4, 2008
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Table of Contents
- News of the Week
- Business
- Government & Policy
- Science & Technology
- Reel Science
- Editor's Page
- The Departments
Cover Story
Interaction Yields
Academia and industry work together to foster new routes to chiral compounds.
News of the Week
Sunny Forecast For Fuel Cells
Novel electrode materials bring large-scale use of solar power closer to reality.
Legislation Bans Phthalates
Bill focuses on children's toys, boosts power of consumer protection agency.
Bristol-Myers Bids For Imclone
Drugmaker wants to buy partner despite their tumultuous past.
New Flu-Fighting Strategy
Structures point to key protein interface as a viable drug target.
Sanofi To Buy Acambis
Deal underscores big pharma's renewed interest in vaccines.
Carbofuran Faces Ban
EPA decision could speed up removal of food pesticide from the U.S. market.
Panacea For NMR
Combining pulse sequences into a single experiment cuts instrument time.
RNA Snippets Pack Power
MicroRNAs help regulate the entire proteome.
Planetary Science
Spacecraft finds liquid ethane in giant lake on Saturn's moon Titan.
» Business
August 4, 2008
Fun In The Sun
Suppliers of semiconductor materials take advantage of emerging solar opportunity.
C&EN Talks With: Carol Dudley
Head of Dow's market-facing businesses pushes firm's specialties and diversification effort.
Business Concentrates
- Coal-to-methanol plant set for West Virginia
- Rockwood will buy Nalco treatment unit
- American Peptide changes hands
- FMC buying Chinese hydrocolloids firm
- PolyOne will close U.S. and U.K. plants
- Voltaix wins funds from Intel Capital
- Borealis installs Symyx R&D reactors
- Dow builds water tech center in Spain
- Major detergent companies to merge...
- ... As big launderer switches from NPE
- Arkema snaps up gas odorant maker
- Weylchem ups Grignard reagents
- Clariant closes in U.K., adds in U.S.
- Business Roundup
» Government & Policy
August 4, 2008
Francis Collins Leaves NIH
After 15 years at the helm, genomics institute director steps down.
Government & Policy Concentrates
» more government & policy news...
» Science & Technology
August 4, 2008
Flooded Out Of Their Labs
Displaced University of Iowa faculty strive to keep researching while waiting to learn extent of lab damage. With Photo Gallery
Preserving A Legacy
Traude Sadtler fights to keep alive the memory of three generations of chemists. With Audio
