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Mapping The Epigenome
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"If you can make silicones and other silicon compounds using biological organisms, you can save a lot of energy, time, and money."
ALAN R. BASSINDALE, PROFESSOR, OPEN UNIVERSITY, ENGLANDp. 30

September 14, 2009

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Highlights

Cover Story

Mapping The Epigenome

New techniques reveal how small chemical changes to DNA and DNA-packaging proteins can alter gene expression in a big way. (pp. 11-16)

Government & Policy

Prioritizing Chemicals (Member Content)

EPA considers hazard, not just exposure, for future screening of endocrine disrupters. (pp. 25-26)

Science & Technology

Emulating Nature's Silicon Skills (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Diatoms have a knack for working with silicon that chemists hope to reproduce in the lab. (pp. 30-33)

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News Of The Week

Super-Thin Zeolites Low-Energy Tunneling Paying For Human Spaceflight

Thin As Thin Can Be p. 5

Catalysis: Synthesis yields zeolite crystals one unit cell thick.

Diagnostics Push p. 6

Acquisition: Deals mark convergence of life sciences tools and medical diagnostics.

Tunneling From A Deeper Source p. 6

Quantum Effects: Electrons penetrate energy barriers from lower orbitals than realized.

Biogen Bids For Facet p. 7

Pharmaceuticals: Deal is designed to boost its position in the MS drug market.

Investing In Solar Cells p. 7

Japan's Showa Shell is sinking $1.1 billion into its thin-film technology.

Bacteria Say NO To Drugs p. 8

Biochemistry: Nitric oxide synthesis neutralizes antibiotics.

Lacking Funds For Space Exploration p. 8

Space Policy: NASA must change human exploration goals or budget, review finds.

Business

A Fast Pace For Suzhou's R&D Hub pp. 20-21 (Member Content)

China's best run R&D center could be growing too quickly for its own good.

Chemtura Charts A Comeback pp. 22-23 (Member Content)

CEO Craig Rogerson hopes firm will emerge from bankruptcy in March 2010.

Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)

  • India Strikes Down AIDS Drug Patents
  • India’s patent office has rejected applications from two U.S. drug companies for patent protection for two HIV/AIDS drugs...
  • Russian Soda Ash Goes To Solvay
  • Solvay has signed an agreement to acquire majority stakes in Bereznikovsky Sodovy Zavod and Berkhimprom...
  • Solyndra Gets Loan For Solar Plant
  • The Department of Energy has finalized a $535 million loan guarantee to thin-film solar manufacturer Solyndra...
  • DuPont Sues Scientist For Stealing Secrets
  • DuPont has filed suit against senior researcher Hong Meng, charging that he stole confidential information on the development of organic light-emitting diodes for computer displays...
  • BASF To Revamp Nylon In Europe
  • BASF will close a nylon 6 engineering polymers plant in Rudolstadt, Germany, by the end of next year and consolidate nylon production at its integrated sites...
  • Shankland Is New Honeywell CTO
  • Ian Shankland has been named vice president and chief technology officer for Honeywell Specialty Materials...
  • Huntsman Closes Plant Down Under
  • Huntsman Corp. plans to close its Australian styrenics facility by early next year...
  • IFF Mulls shutting European Plants
  • International Flavors & Fragrances says it may close its fragrances compounding facility in Drogheda, Ireland, as well as a portion of its fragrance chemical plant in Haverhill, England...
  • Plextronics, Novaled Collaborate On OLEDs
  • Plextronics and Novaled have agreed to collaborate on inexpensive solution-processed OLED materials—specifically solution-processible hole-injection layer materials...
  • Liquidia Raises Funds For Nanopolymer
  • Nanotechnology start-up Liquidia Technologies has raised $7 million in a third round of venture capital financing, led by Canaan Partners...
  • Albemarle Links With MeadWestvaco
  • Albemarle has formed an alliance with MeadWestvaco Specialty Chemicals to develop brominated wood-based activated carbon for use in controlling mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants...
  • Germany’s Merck Buys Chinese Pigment Firm
  • Merck KGaA has acquired Suzhou Taizhu Technology Development for close to $41 million...
  • Targeted Genetics Has Deal With Genzyme
  • Targeted Genetics has sold manufacturing and other technology related to adeno-associated viral vectors to Genzyme for up to $7 million...
  • Roche Names New Pharma Executives
  • Pascal Soriot, 50, will take over in 2010 as chief operating officer of Roche’s pharma division, which has been led by CEO William M. Burns...
  • Business Roundup
  • The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates’, Dow Chemical, Bayer CropScience, Xoma and Arana Therapeutics, BioLeap, Sigma Pharmaceuticals will acquire a Bristol-Myers Squibb plant...

Awards

Awards pp. 37-38 (Member Content)

Government & Policy

Prioritizing Chemicals pp. 25-26 (Member Content)

EPA considers hazard, not just exposure, for future screening of endocrine disrupters.

Government & Policy Concentrates p. 24 (Member Content)

People

Obituaries pp. 39-40 (Member Content)

Science & Technology

Emulating Nature's Silicon Skills pp. 30-33 (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Diatoms have a knack for working with silicon that chemists hope to reproduce in the lab.

Peering Into Water Photolysis pp. 34-35 (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Physical chemists probe the inner workings of redox processes at the interfaces of water and electrodes.

Digital Briefs p. 36 (Member Content)

New software and Websites for the Chemical Enterprise.

Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 28-29 (Member Content)

Editor's Page

A Scientific Milestone p. 3

The Departments

Letters p. 4 (Member Content)

Newscripts p. 48

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