Francis S. Collins
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"Just come and look at the ACS scholars. Listen to them, and you will walk away very confident that the future is in really, really good hands."
ROBERT L. LICHTER. – p. 46
April 26, 2010
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Highlights
Cover Story
Francis S. Collins
NIH's new director discusses challenges and opportunities arising from health care reform, stimulus spending, and more. (pp. 13-17)
Business
Top Instrument Producers (Member Content)
C&EN's first ranking of analytical and life sciences instrumentation firms reflects the recession. (pp. 22-27)
Education
Equipping Chemists To Compete Globally
ACS Meeting News: Presidential session in San Francisco brings industry, academe together to discuss U.S. education needs. (pp. 44-45)
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News Of The Week
Chemicals Regulations p. 7
Legislation: Industry, activists seek changes to Congress' proposals for the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Volcanic Ash Data Sought p. 8
Atmospheric Chemistry: Chemists launch research efforts to probe aerosols from Eyjafjallajokull's eruption.
Biomarkers Help Hit The Bull's-Eye p. 8
Personalized Medicine: Cancer therapy is more effective when target is identified.
Solving A Protein Mystery p. 9
Protein Synthesis: Discovery connects transcription and translation in bacteria.
Amyris Files For IPO p. 9
Industrial Biotechnology: Firm is devising biomass-based routes to chemicals, fuels.
Silken Electronics p. 10
Biomaterials: Electrode arrays constructed from films of silk cling to the brain.
Carbene Size Guides Coupling p. 10
Organometallic Chemistry: Ligand bulk affects outcome of aldehyde-alkyne pairing.
Bypassing The Moon p. 11
Space Policy: Obama's plan for U.S. human space exploration gets cold reception.
Making Complanadine A p. 11
Transition metals are key in syntheses of alkaloid that aids production of nerve growth factors.
Business
Top Instrument Producers pp. 22-27 (Member Content)
C&EN's first ranking of analytical and life sciences instrumentation firms reflects the recession.
C&EN Talks With Mitchell Zakin p. 28 (Member Content)
Former DARPA manager hopes to use chemistry to fuse mind and matter.
Business Concentrates pp. 20-21 (Member Content)
- Good Economic Signs At SABIC and DuPont
- Signs are emerging that 2010 will be better than 2009 for the chemical industry...
- Evonik Buys Maker Of Colloidal Silica
- Evonik Industries has purchased a controlling interest in Harris & Ford Silco, a Portland, Ore.-based manufacturer of colloidal and ultra-high-purity silica...
- Futerro Venture Launches Plant For Polylactic Acid
- Futerro, a 50-50 joint venture between Galactic and Total Petrochemicals, has started polylactic acid (PLA) production at a 1,500-metric-ton-per-year pilot plant...
- Ferro And Heraeus Swap Businesses
- Ferro and the German metals company Heraeus are exchanging businesses in a transaction they expect to be complete by May 1...
- Bayer Must Pay Damages In Rice Case
- Bayer CropScience must pay $48 million in damages to 14 Arkansas farmers who allege that they lost money because of import restrictions on U.S. rice...
- FRX Opens Polymer Lab And Pilot Plant
- FRX Polymers, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based start-up, has opened a pilot plant at its headquarters to make monomers for polyphosphonate oligomers and polymers...
- Dow And Iowa State Will Explore Algae
- Dow AgroSciences and researchers at Iowa State University will study how Dow’s Exzact Precision Technology can be used to develop biobased products...
- Minafin Consolidates In Fine Chemicals
- Minafin, a Luxembourg-based fine chemicals firm, has launched a reorganization in which its pharmaceutical chemical subsidiaries in France, the U.S., and Germany...
- Sandoz To Acquire Oriel Therapeutics
- Sandoz, the generic drug arm of Novartis, will purchase privately held Oriel Therapeutics for an undisclosed amount...
- Novartis, Array In MEK Inhibitor Pact
- Novartis has agreed to pay Boulder, Colo.-based Array BioPharma up to $477 million for access to ARRY-162, a MEK inhibitor in Phase I trials...
- Boehringer Ingelheim Advances Drug Plant
- Boehringer Ingelheim has celebrated the topping out—the placing of the last beam—at a new facility in Ingelheim, Germany...
- Evonik Starts Up API Facility In China
- Evonik Industries has started production at an active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) plant in Nanning...
- Celgene, Agios Eye Cancer Metabolism
- Celgene and Agios Pharmaceuticals have established a broad collaboration to discover and develop drugs targeting cancer metabolism...
- Business Roundup
- Tessenderlo, Nalco, Nippon Sheet Glass, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Cell Therapeutics, Oracle, Novartis, Elan Corp...
Education
Equipping Chemists To Compete Globally pp. 44-45
ACS Meeting News: Presidential session in San Francisco brings industry, academe together to discuss U.S. education needs.
The Future Is In Good Hands pp. 46-47
ACS Meeting News: Four women underscore impact of ACS Scholars Program.
Government & Policy
Mr. Sustainability Goes To Washington pp. 32-33 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: EPA R&D head sees technological innovation and a solutions approach as essential to the success of the agency's mission.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 30 (Member Content)
- House Bill Fuels Public-Access Drive
- Rep. Michael Doyle (D-Pa.) introduced a public-access bill in the House of Representatives on April 15...
- U.S. Not Ready For Bioattack Cleanup
- The federal government is not adequately prepared to deal with the potential consequences of a large-scale biological attack on the U.S....
- EPA Cuts Mercury In Gold Mining
- Mercury emissions from gold ore processing and production-the U.S.'s sixth largest source of mercury air emissions...
- New Competition For Industrial Research
- NIST has announced a new competition for high-risk, high-reward research funding under its...
- Vitamins Better Than Perchlorate Controls
- Adding iodide to prenatal vitamin supplements appears to be more effective at protecting public health from...
» more government & policy news...
ACS Comment
Who Is Missing From The Table? p. 48 (Member Content)
ACS Scholars
Bernadette A. Hernandez-Sanchez p. 49
For an enthusiastic experimentalist, the ACS Scholars Program opened doors of opportunity.
Social Networking And C&EN
You can now follow C&EN on Facebook. Become a fan and track the latest news and discussions at facebook.com/CENews.
Science & Technology
Rare And Neglected pp. 36-38 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Symposium urges greater research support for maladies that do not attract mainstream pharma.
Gypsy Moth Control pp. 40-42
ACS Meeting News: Scientists have used a plethora of chemicals and techniques to manage the invasive pest. With Photo Gallery
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 34-35 (Member Content)
- Nanopatterning Gets Smaller
- IBM researchers use a heated silicon atomic force microscope tip to etch out 15-nm features
- Sunlight-Driven Nanowire Catalysts
- Novel platinum-silicon-silver integrated nanowire device has improved efficiency in the visible region
- Electrospun Fabric Thwarts Microbes
- Method should improve technology for making antibacterial surgical masks and hospital gowns
- Phototriggers Track Protein Dynamics
- Tetrazine-based probes inserted into peptides open a new window into structure evolution
- Probing A Protein’s Elusive Chromophore
- p-Coumaric acid study helps unravel the processes that drive a popular bacterial photoreceptor
» more science & technology news...
Meetings
37th Northeast Regional Meeting pp. 50-51 (Member Content)
Conference will focus on chemical solutions for a sustainable world.
2010 C&EN Calendar Web Exclusive
C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community is for April through December.
This Week Online
Reel Science
"Survival of the Dead"
Inspired by the latest George A. Romero flick, Reel Science explores the science of zombies.
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The Departments
Letters p. 4
Newscripts p. 56
Where Science Meets Children's Fiction
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