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August 5, 2013 Cover
Volume 91, Issue 31
COVER: Postdoctoral fellow Federica Sgolastra (left) and graduate student Arife Özgül Tezgel (center) work at a lab bench with professor Gregory N. Tew at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which has a partnership with industry.
Volume 91, Issue 31
After years of distrust, academia and industry are forming alliances for chemical research
COVER: Postdoctoral fellow Federica Sgolastra (left) and graduate student Arife Özgül Tezgel (center) work at a lab bench with professor Gregory N. Tew at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which has a partnership with industry.
Credit: Jim Gipe/Pivot Media/UMass Amherst
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August 5, 2013 Issue
Volume 91, Issue 31
August 5, 2013 Issue, Vol. 91 | Iss. 31
After years of distrust, academia and industry are forming alliances for chemical research
(pp. 12-16)
Features
Science & Technology
Modern chemical analysis helps replicate 200-year-old trumpets (pp. 32-33)
Science & Technology
Hormone mimic shows promise for helping crops cope (pp. 34-35)
Cover Story: University Inc.
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(p.8)Workplace Agency Rebuked
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Vote: Ballot names announced for ACS president-elect, directors-at-large, and District II and IV director
(p.10)Green Paint Removal
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(p.11)Taking A Cell’s Temperature
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(p.11)Departments
Business
Company executives say a new experiment in collaboration is working
(pp. 22-23)
After years of distrust, academia and industry are forming alliances for chemical research
(pp. 12-16)
Transformation under way could make Japanese companies more effective at launching new drugs
(pp. 19-21)Concentrates
(pp. 17-18)
(pp. 17-18)- Biotechs Launch GMO Defense
- Hedge Fund Eyes Air Products
- Ineos Starts Making Cellulosic Ethanol
- PPG Selling Stake In Lens Business
- Altana Buys Rockwood’s Rheology Business
- Japan’s Kaneka Ups Vinyl In The U.S.
- BASF Slates Two More Plants In China
- Croda Buys Chinese Fatty Acid Maker
- Sreeram Will Head Research At Dow
- Piramal Boosts Drug Conjugates
- Ampac Fine Chemicals To Work With Proteaf
- AstraZeneca Links With FibroGen
- Celgene Expands In Epigenetics
- Business Roundup
Government & Policy
Federal program spotlights materials science, but plan for meeting its ambitious goal is still under development
(pp. 25-27)
Trans-Atlantic agreement could change rules such as food-labeling standards
(pp. 28-29)
Science & Technology
Modern chemical analysis helps replicate 200-year-old trumpets
(pp. 32-33)
Documentary-style thriller gives viewers a fictitious but realistic glimpse into both the excitement and tedium of human space exploration
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Hormone mimic shows promise for helping crops cope
(pp. 34-35)Concentrates(pp. 30-31)
(pp. 30-31)- The Sound Of Spectra
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- Watermelon Juice Wards Off Muscle Soreness
- Porous Organic Polymers Tackle Toxic Pollutants
- Water Contamination Rises In Texas After Natural Gas Drilling
- Incas Doped Their Sacrifice Victims
- New Twist On Chiral Fluorination
- Small Gold Clusters Mean Big Activity