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August 17, 2009
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Highlights
Cover Story
Stimulus For Instruments
Scientific instrument makers hope that big bucks in government stimulus R&D spending mean big profits for them. (pp. 13-16)
Government & Policy
Drilling Chemicals (Member Content)
Congress, natural gas producers clash over tainted-water claims. (pp. 28-29)
Science & Technology
Trouble In The Tundra
Features formed by melting permafrost provide clues to a changing Arctic landscape and climate. (pp. 39-43)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Flexible Fluorination p. 7
Pd-catalyzed reaction adds fluorine to a wide variety of substrates.
Tokuyama Doubles Output p. 8
Expansion takes place amid softening demand.
Bacteria Interfere With Painkillers p. 8
Gut microbes manipulate acetaminophen metabolism.
Deal Fever Strikes Japan p. 9
Union of Mitsubishi Chemical and Mitsubishi Rayon could benefit both.
Monsanto's Phosphate Operation p. 9
Life sciences company will process phosphorus for Roundup herbicide from a new mine in Idaho.
Emissions Swaps p. 10
North American leaders envision regional trading system for greenhouse gases.
Broad-Spectrum Photosensor p. 10
Polymer plus fullerene yields photodetector that covers ultraviolet to near infrared.
Business
Demand Stabilizes In Second Quarter pp. 19-21 (Member Content)
As destocking ends, chemical firms look for signs of growth.
Pharma Continues To Flounder pp. 22-25 (Member Content)
U.S. companies have lackluster results in the second quarter, but flu treatments could help european firms.
Mining The Sea Of Plastic Web Exclusive
Scientists sail off to study plastic trash in the Pacific and ways of recovering it.
Business Concentrates pp. 17-18 (Member Content)
- Elan Sues Biogen Idec In Spat Over J&J Deal
- Elan and Biogen Idec are fighting about whether a company can trade away half a partnership...
- DuPont Rejiggers Business Operations
- Preparing DuPont to come out of the recession as a more agile competitor...
- Iofina Acquires Iodine Firm H&S
- Iofina has acquired the iodine derivatives producer H&S Chemical for $8.5 million in cash and stock...
- ISP Forms Skin test Alliance
- International Specialty Products has formed an alliance with Cellworks Group to use the latter’s computer-enabled...
- BP And Martek Join For Algae Biofuel
- BP has signed a development agreement with Martek Biosciences to use algae to produce biodiesel from sugar...
- Sigma-Aldrich Buys ChemNavigator
- Sigma-Aldrich has acquired ChemNavigator, a cheminformatics company that provides discovery research software for the design, selection, and procurement of chemical compound libraries...
- EU Probes Chinese Chemical Exporters
- Responding to a complaint from the European Chemical Industry Council, the European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into allegations that Chinese makers of the industrial cleaning agent sodium gluconate are selling their product at below-market prices in the European Union...
- Lanxess Scores With Novel Tire Additive
- Lanxess has won the first major application for its Nanoprene nanoscale pre-cross-linked rubber particles...
- Clinton Foundation Lowers HIV Drug Prices
- The William J. Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative has scored two deals that will help bring better and cheaper HIV and tuberculosis drugs to patients in developing countries...
- Millipore Acquires England-Based BioAnaLab
- Millipore has acquired BioAnaLab, an England-based developer of assay, validation, and other services for biopharmaceutical firms...
- EMD Serono Links With M.D. Anderson
- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has inked another deal with a big drug company geared at bringing drugs out of the lab and to patients more efficiently...
- GSK Strikes Deals With Vernalis, Nabi
- GlaxoSmithKline will collaborate with Vernalis to develop drugs that act against an undisclosed oncology target...
- Business Roundup
- Air Products & Chemicals, Saint-Gobain, Cray Valley, Lanxess, Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Novartis, Inovio Biomedical, Nycomed...
ACS News
London Bridge p. 50 (Member Content)
GCI Wants Pharmaceutical Grant Proposals p. 50 (Member Content)
Government & Policy
Drilling Chemicals pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
Congress, natural gas producers clash over tainted-water claims.
Electricity From Hot Rocks pp. 30-33 (Member Content)
The enormous potential of untapped natural and engineered geothermal energy sources.
Anthrax Probe Under Scrutiny pp. 34-35 (Member Content)
National Research Council review of the science used in the FBI's Amerithrax investigation is under way.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 27 (Member Content)
- FDA Drug Chief Under Investigation
- The inspector general's office of the Department of Health & Human Services is reportedly investigating a conflict-of-interest charge involving Janet Woodcock, director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation & Research...
- Senate Approves Collins As New NIH Head
- The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head NIH on Aug. 7. Francis S. Collins will now head the agency...
- Industry Urges Court To Reject Patent Test
- The biotechnology industry is urging the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision (Bilski v. Doll)...
- Testing Drugs For Melamine
- FDA is advising pharmaceutical companies to test certain nitrogen-rich drug ingredients for melamine...
- OSHA Program To Inspect Chemical Plants
- OSHA has started a new, one-year pilot program to increase inspections of facilities using certain hazardous chemicals...
» more government & policy news...
Reel Science
Love and Asperger's
Reel Science reviews "Adam," a love story hampered by high-functioning autism.
Science & Technology
Trouble In The Tundra pp. 39-43
Features formed by melting permafrost provide clues to a changing Arctic landscape and climate.
Kindling For Climate Change Web Exclusive
Toolik scientists study the long-term impact of a raging fire in the Arctic.
Depicting Matter pp. 44-46 (Member Content)
Existing representations of chemistry in action cannot match the chemist's imagination.
Insights: Communication Dot Com p. 47 (Member Content)
The internet is an important hub for discussing chemistry—don't dismiss it.
New Products p. 49 (Member Content)
New and notable in the chemical industry.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 37-38 (Member Content)
- Nanomaterials Bug Fruit Flies
- Carbon nanomaterials don't seem to harm larvae, but glom onto adults and impair their mobility, leading to early mortality.
- Tracking Toxicity In Honeybee Food
- Traces of hydroxymethylfurfural that form in high-fructose corn syrup used as a food supplement imperils honeybees.
- Orchid's Deception Lures Pollinators
- Flowers trick hornets into becoming pollinators by emitting an eicosenol, which mimics the scent of the insects' honeybee prey.
- Peering At Polyolefins
- A new data-collection probe improves the sensitivity and speed for characterizing polyolefins by 13C NMR.
- Nacre's Trade Secrets Revealed
- Two proteins aid the orderly formation of calcium carbonate crystals that gives pearls and oyster shells their iridescent luster.
- Closing In On Personal Genome Sequencing
- Using commercially available instruments and reagents, Stanford University researchers quickly sequence a group member's genome.
- Clathrin Smuggles Quantum Dots Into Living Cells
- A neuropeptide helps slip CdSe-ZnS quantum dots through cell membranes by recruiting clathrin, a protein that facilitates endocytosis.
- New Trick For MOFs
- Incorporating cyclic polyethers into metal-organic frameworks permits specific binding of organic molecules in the porous materials.
» more science & technology news...
The Departments
Letters pp. 4-6 (Member Content)
Obituaries p. 51 (Member Content)
Newscripts p. 56
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