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Volume 91, Issue 11
COVER: Common botanical dietary supplements include (from left) milk thistle,
Volume 91, Issue 11
Doubts about safety and efficacy push researchers and companies to hone analysis methods
COVER: Common botanical dietary supplements include (from left) milk thistle,
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March 18, 2013 Issue
Volume 91, Issue 11
March 18, 2013 Issue, Vol. 91 | Iss. 11
Doubts about safety and efficacy push researchers and companies to hone analysis methods
(pp. 12-17)
Features
Career & Employment
Outreach programs, extra funding, and even economic recession have combined to bring the U.K.’s university chemistry departments back from the brink (pp. 79-82)
News of the Week
Curiosity Finds A Hospitable Mars
Planetary Science: Rock dust shows watery minerals, neutral pH, and an unusual energy source for microbes
(p.7)Boosting Cybersecurity
Internet: Chemical industry calls for legislation to combat threat from computer hackers
(p.8)China Upgrades Drug Safety Agency
People’s Congress: Move aims to raise quality of food and drug supply
(p.8)Bold Territory For Polymers
Materials Science: Chemists push the bounds of what’s structurally possible in polymer architectures
(p.9)Congress Plods Forward On Budget
Congress continues work to finish 2013 appropriations, avert government shutdown
(p.9)BASF Beefs Up U.S. Academic Ties
Research Funding: German firm to back R&D, create new postdoc positions
(p.10)Distant Planet Yields To Chemical Characterization
Space: Sharp spectral lines allow astronomers to determine origins of a planet outside our solar system
(p.10)German Automakers To Use Air-Conditioners Based On Carbon Dioxide
Shift away from hydrofluoroolefin-1234yf hinges on flammability concerns
(p.11)Synthetic Shortcut To Erythromycin Precursor
Organic Synthesis: Recently developed reactions shorten path to 6-deoxyerythronolide B
(p.11)Departments
Business
Support for transformative technologies continues in face of government budget cutting
(pp. 22-23)
Transformative technologies aim to switch an environmental threat into a benefit
(pp. 20-21)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- Chemical Storage Centers Set
- Dow Picks Two Units For Disposal
- Firms Add Chemical R&D Centers
- LyondellBasell Plans Yet More Ethylene
- Dow Buys Solar Partner NuvoSun
- Ascenix To Make Bio Methyl Methacrylate
- BASF, Shell To Pay In Brazilian Case
- Sanford-Burnham Teams With Mayo
- Linde To Supply Gases For Coal Chemicals Project
- Merck Will Close Irish Drug Plant
- Catalent Sets Chinese Ventures
- GSK Will Shutter Sirtris R&D Labs
- Astellas Dissolves Drug Development Pacts
- Business Roundup
Government & Policy
Environmental Protection Agency chemicals chief calls for industry to supply toxicity information voluntarily for substances undergoing risk assessment
(pp. 34-36)
But Accuracy questions haunt emerging technologies intended to prioritize chemicals for screening
(pp. 30-32)
New forensics commission to recommend guidelines, design policies
(pp. 27-29)
Science & Technology
Origin-of-life researchers find inspiration in a classic classroom experiment
(pp. 44-45)
Doubts about safety and efficacy push researchers and companies to hone analysis methods
(pp. 12-17)
Biomarkers and imaging tools may show whether new therapies stop damage before it’s too late
(pp. 41-43)Career & Employment
Outreach programs, extra funding, and even economic recession have combined to bring the U.K.’s university chemistry departments back from the brink
(pp. 79-82)