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December 4, 2006 Issue

Volume 84, Issue 49
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December 4, 2006 Issue, Vol. 84 | Iss. 49

Pharma Challenged

Market shifts and generic competition create dynamic environment for drug developers
By Joanne Grimley, IMS Management Consulting
(pp. 17-28)
Features
Government & Policy

Anthrax Sleuthing

Science aids a nettlesome FBI criminal probe (pp. 47-54)
Science & Technology

Scripps Takes A New Approach

Florida campus brings drug discovery to the academic arena (pp. 64-67)
Back Issues
 

Cover Story: Pharma Challenged

Mergers & Acquisitions
Megadeals wane, but consolidation continues
Web Exclusive
 

News of the Week

Financial Firms Buy H. C. Starck

Sale of metals maker will help Bayer's life sciences push
(p.12)

Global Warming Case To High Court

Supreme Court weighs regulation of greenhouse gas emissions
(p.12)

Atmospheric Chemistry

Air pollution controls nip NOx in the bud
(p.13)

A Pipeline Push

Pfizer cuts sales staff by 20% as it touts its research program
(p.14)

Reclassifying Nanosilver

EPA will now consider nanosilver used in washing machines as pesticides
(p.14)

How Polonium Poisons

210Po carpet bombs cells with damaging α-particles
(p.15)
 

Departments

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Business

A Small Firm With Big Aspirations

Potassium permanganate leader Carus Chemical looks for growth in the Middle East and Asia
(p.35)

Big Petrochemical Plans

Latin America, and Brazil in particular, is seeing no shortage of chemical projects in the works
(p.36)

European Earnings

The third quarter was generally strong for Europe's chemical companies
(pp. 38-39)

Olefin Dispersions

Low-viscosity waterborne dispersions enable thin, solvent-free films
(p.40)

The Metropark Desk

Where chemistry reaches beyond the world of science
(p.42)

Mergers & Acquisitions

Megadeals wane, but consolidation continues
Web Exclusive

Pharma Challenged

Market shifts and generic competition create dynamic environment for drug developers
(pp. 17-28)

ACS News

What Do You Think?

(p.86)
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Government & Policy

Anthrax Sleuthing

Science aids a nettlesome FBI criminal probe
(pp. 47-54)

Untold Effects Of Energy Farming

Skyrocketing demand for ethanol feedstock could profoundly change the agricultural landscape
(pp. 57-62)
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Science & Technology

Scripps Chairman Moores Funds Institute To Fight Tropical Diseases

(pp. 66-67)

Scripps Takes A New Approach

Florida campus brings drug discovery to the academic arena
(pp. 64-67)

Luminous With Promise

Visible even from space, the conspicuous chemistry of bioluminescence continues to open new research and technology niches
(pp. 69-73)

Weighing Reproducibility

Researchers confront an array of issues and questions when experimental work cannot be reproduced
(pp. 75-77)

Living Organisms Join The Jet Set

London biophysicist is developing jet-based technologies to encapsulate living cells
(pp. 78-80)

Fungi To The Rescue

Biopesticide derived from mold has promise as a greener method for eradicating insect pests
(pp. 82-83)

Jamie Ginn

Miss America contestant representing Delaware is a chemical engineer, actor, and dancer
(p.84)

Newscripts

Newscripts

(p.112)

Letters