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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)
Former DARPA manager hopes to use chemistry to fuse mind and matter
(p.28)
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)Newscripts
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