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"These days, you can't expect a job to last more than three to five years before mergers and restructuring force you to look for new prospects."
DANIEL E. LEVY, FOUNDER DEL BIOPHARMAp. 49

April 18, 2011

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Highlights

Cover Story

Farm Market

Agricultural chemical makers strive to bring to market pesticides with new modes of action, targets. (pp. 13-17)

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Science & Technology

Unveiling Drug Candidates (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Medicinal chemists reveal potential drugs for HIV, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and irritable bowel syndrome. (pp. 37-41)

Career & Employment

Survival Skills

For the long-term unemployed, the key to finding a new job is to keep skills sharp. (pp. 49-51)

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Cover Story

Germinating Pesticides pp. 13-17

Chemical firms change course in the search for new products for agriculture.

Life After Roundup Web Exclusive

Weed Science: The emergence of glyphosate-resistant weeds has put agriculture in a quandary.

Going Mainstream: Biopesticide Producers Look Beyond Organic Growers p. 16

News Of The Week

Picking Up The Pace Of Evolution p. 7

Molecular Biology: Method speeds lab-based molecular evolution.

Congress Moves Forward On 2011 Budget p. 8

Government: Agreement on spending cuts averts a shutdown but will halt expansion plans for several science agencies.

Firms Target Biomethionine p. 8

Feed Additives: French and South Korean companies join for new route to amino acid.

Heterogeneous Tandem Catalysis p. 9

Catalysis: Nanostructured layered material performs multistep reaction.

Renewable Chemicals p. 9

OPX collaborates with Dow for biobased acrylic acid.

Doubting EPA On Formaldehyde p. 10

Risk: Science panel says agency failed to support chemical's link to leukemia, other health problems.

Chlorination Improves Organic Electronics p. 10

Materials: Treatment could simplify manufacturing, reduce costs.

Business

Rules Of Engagement pp. 21-23 (Member Content)

European companies and universities increasingly join forces for R&D.

Patchwork: Intellectual Property Rights Vary Across Europe Web Exclusive

Euticals Makes Its Global Move pp. 24-25 (Member Content)

The small Italian pharma chemicals firm harnesses Archimica.

Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)

Career & Employment

Survival Skills pp. 49-51

For the long-term unemployed, the key to finding a new job is to keep skills sharp.

How To Craft An Attractive Résumé Web Exclusive

This Week Online

Where's the (Drug-Free) Beef?

Proteomics: Changes in protein expression could uncover cattle treated illicitly with growth-promoting hormones.

Pollution Turns Red Into Black

Art Conservation: Atmospheric sulfur dioxide blackens pigments in Pompeian frescoes.

Cutting Household Carbon Footprints

Climate Change: New online tool helps calculate the best ways to reduce emissions.

Latin American Petrochemical Meeting

C&EN Senior Editor Alex Tullo reports from the Petrochemical Networking Meeting in Houston.

Government & Policy

Food Dye Debate Resurfaces pp. 27-31 (Member Content)

FDA considers evidence to support link between behavior and artificial colors.

EPA Moves On Vapor Intrusion pp. 32-34 (Member Content)

Regulations are under way despite gaps in understanding how chemical vapors invade buildings.

Government & Policy Concentrates p. 26 (Member Content)

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Science & Technology

Unveiling Drug Candidates pp. 37-41(Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Medicinal chemists reveal potential drugs for HIV, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Where Are They Now? Revisiting Disclosures From Years Past p. 38(Member Content)

An Alternative Methylation Route pp. 42-43 (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Details of bacterial enzymes' unusual methylation step may help fight antibiotic resistance.

SciFinder's New Tool p. 45 (Member Content)

SciPlanner lets chemists visually interact with Chemical Abstracts Service data.

Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 35-36

Meetings

2011 C&EN Calendar Web Exclusive

C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community.

Editor's Page

Scientific Literacy p. 5

The Departments

Letters p. 6

Newscripts p. 56

Intoxicated Metals, Hangover Relief, Prehistoric Reptile Skin

C&EN Archives

C&EN Archives

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Environmental SCENE News

Fertilizer May Help Bacteria Slip Into Groundwater

Water Safety: High phosphate levels allow deadly microbes to pass through soil.

Bisphenol A Is Ubiquitous In Receipts

Endocrine Disrupters: Researchers detect BPA in every receipt that they collected from seven U.S. cities.

Sunlight Is An Effective Disinfectant

Public Health: Field work shows that a cheap water treatment method improves children's health.

House Takes Aim At Clean Air Act

Pollution: Industry backs cost-benefit analyses of EPA rules, but critics fear assault on public health.

Analytical SCENE News

New Method Isolates Membrane Proteins

Protein Purification: Technique separates proteins on a lipid bilayer.

Bisphenol A Is Ubiquitous In Receipts

Endocrine Disrupters: Researchers detect BPA in every receipt that they collected from seven U.S. cities.

Mapping Drugs In Human Tissue

Clinical Chemistry: Mass spectrometry imaging provides view of an inhaled drug in human lung tissue.

Skeletons Come To Light

Fluorescence Imaging: Monitoring cells as they dissolve bone may lead to disease treatments.

Analyzing Nuclear Processes

ACS Meeting News: Analytical chemists devise ways to watch radioactive streams.

JACS Research In C&EN

Indole Changeup Yields Elusive Alkaloid

ACS Meeting News: Cyclization and nitrene insertion star in synthesis.

Prefab Synthesis Moves Ahead

Organic Chemistry: First stable alpha-boryl aldehydes ease preparation of complex small molecules.

Multiple Bradykinin States Revealed

The peptide adopts at least 10 conformers in solution, explaining why its structure had only been partially characterized.

Scaling Up The Axinellamines

A quicker, more efficient, and stereocontrolled route to a key intermediate streamlines natural product syntheses.

A Revamped Vancomycin

Medicinal Chemistry: Modified compound shows promise against hard-to-treat bacteria.

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