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April 26, 2010 Cover
Volume 88, Issue 17
COVER: Peter Cutts Photography
Volume 88, Issue 17
FRANCIS S. COLLINS
NIH director discusses challenges, opportunities driven by health care reform, stimulus spending, and fast pace of scientific discovery
COVER: Peter Cutts Photography
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April 26, 2010 Issue
Volume 88, Issue 17
April 26, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 17
NIH director discusses challenges, opportunities driven by health care reform, stimulus spending, and fast pace of scientific discovery
(pp. 12-18)
Features
Business
C&EN's first ranking of analytical and life sciences instrumentation firms reflects the recession (pp. 22-27)
Education
ACS Meeting News: Presidential session in San Francisco brings industry, academe together to discuss U.S. education needs (pp. 44-45)
News of the Week
Chemicals Regulation
Legislation: Industry, activists seek changes to Congress' proposals for the Toxic Substances Control Act
(p.7)Biomarkers Help Hit The Bull's-Eye
Personalized Medicine: Cancer therapy is more effective when target is identified
(p.8)Volcanic Ash Data Sought
Atmospheric Chemistry: Chemists launch research efforts to probe aerosols from Eyjafjallajokull's eruption
(p.8)Amyris Files For IPO
Industrial Biotechnology: Firm is devising biomass-based routes to chemicals, fuels
(p.9)Solving A Protein Mystery
Protein Synthesis: Discovery connects transcription and translation in bacteria
(p.9)Carbene Size Guides Coupling
Organometallic Chemistry: Ligand bulk affects outcome of aldehyde-alkyne pairing
(p.10)Silken Electronics
Biomaterials: Electrode arrays constructed from films of silk cling to the brain
(p.10)Bypassing The Moon
Space Policy: Obama's plan for U.S. human space exploration gets cold reception
(p.11)Making Complanadine A
Transition metals are key in syntheses of alkaloid that aids production of nerve growth factors.
(p.11)Departments
Business
C&EN's first ranking of analytical and life sciences instrumentation firms reflects the recession
(pp. 22-27)
NIH director discusses challenges, opportunities driven by health care reform, stimulus spending, and fast pace of scientific discovery
(pp. 12-18)Concentrates
(pp. 20-21)
(pp. 20-21)- Good Economic Signs At SABIC and DuPont
- Evonik Buys Maker Of Colloidal Silica
- Futerro Venture Launches Plant For Polylactic Acid
- Ferro And Heraeus Swap Businesses
- Bayer Must Pay Damages In Rice Case
- FRX Opens Polymer Lab And Pilot Plant
- Dow And Iowa State Will Explore Algae
- Minafin Consolidates In Fine Chemicals
- Sandoz To Acquire Oriel Therapeutics
- Novartis, Array In MEK Inhibitor Pact
- Boehringer Ingelheim Advances Drug Plant
- Evonik Starts Up API Facility In China
- Celgene, Agios Eye Cancer Metabolism
- Business Roundup
ACS News
For an enthusiastic experimentalist, the ACS Scholars program opened doors of opportunity
(p.49)
Conference will focus on chemical solutions for a sustainable world
(pp. 50-51)
Government & Policy
ACS Meeting News: EPA R&D head sees technological innovation and a solutions approach as essential to the success of the agency’s mission
(pp. 32-33)Education
ACS Meeting News: Presidential session in San Francisco brings industry, academe together to discuss U.S. education needs
(pp. 44-45)
ACS Meeting News: Four women underscore impact of ACS scholars program
(pp. 46-47)
Science & Technology
ACS Meeting News: Symposium urges greater research support for maladies that do not attract mainstream pharma
(pp. 36-38)
ACS Meeting News: Chemical treatments to rein in invasive pest have evolved, but it's still expanding its range
(pp. 40-42)