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Customer Services News and analysis ● Sample Content All that is small is not nano Tackling graffiti ● Online Access 14 September 2009 08 September 2009 ● Copyright & Permissions Researchers suggest doing away with Developers hope for renewed support for new Related Links traditional definition of a nanoparticle to polymer-based anti-graffiti coating that lets Advertisements ● Highlights in Chemical Science provide a focus for environmental, health buildings 'breathe' ● Highlights in Chemical and safety studies, and future regulation Technology Germany plugs electric cars Peer review under the microscope 26 August 2009 ● Highlights in Chemical Biology 09 September 2009 Germany ploughs an extra €500 million into ● CW: China International survey of reviewers reiterates electric vehicle R&D in a bid to have a million Tools concerns over demand, quality control and electric cars on the road by 2020 Email this to a friend detecting plagiarism in peer review Add to del.icio.us Photographing flexible electronics Digg this story Food supplement fights HIV 11 September 2009 Share on Facebook 17 September 2009 Photography has provided the inspiration for a Seed Newsvine Medical nutritional supplement can slow the fast, room temperature route to produce Reddit this decline in immunity in HIV-positive patients, flexible electronic components Twitter this according to clinical trial results presented this week Authorities clamp down on Reach violations Reach costs set to spiral 04 September 2009 27 August 2009 National agencies issue warnings to firms The EU's Reach chemicals legislation could breaching Reach chemical regulations in signs use 20 times more animals and cost six of tough approach to compliance times more than originally estimated, say two toxicologists Light on the horizon for chemicals sector 10 September 2009 Oil repelling eco-friendly coatings The worldwide chemical industry appears to ACS Fall 2009, Washington, DC, US have stabilised and could show mild growth by The chemical composition of death the end of the year, say industry economists

During the American Chemical Society's Fall Business roundup meeting in Washington, DC, Sarah Jones Industry news, October 2009 and Dan Sykes, from Pennsylvania State University, presented work In the papers... Short items Engineering plants to make vaccines Noroviruses, also known as 'winter vomiting Market Place disease' or the 'cruise ship virus', spreads New products, October 2009

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very quickly News in brief New HIV vaccine hope Short items, October 2009 03 September 2009 Note book For the first time in decades, researchers Short items, October 2009 have discovered new broadly neutralising antibodies that could lead to an effective vaccine for HIV

PhD bribes scandal hits German universities 25 August 2009 German prosecutors investigate at least 100 cases of professors taking cash bribes to help students obtain PhDs

Chemical science

Molecules in close-up New kind of bond hidden in all animals 27 August 2009 03 September 2009 A tuning-fork-like device that measures US chemists have identified a unique chemical atomic forces can image every single atom bond that holds together a type of collagen in a molecule, according to its Swiss molecule in all animals inventors Anti-terror antibodies New nanoboxes take shape 26 August 2009 20 August 2009 European scientists have developed a method Tiny cubes fold themselves up in a new way to detect potential biological warfare agents in to make patterned 3D structures on the food nanoscale Microfluidics makes its mark C-H oxidation proves its worth 21 August 2009 30 August 2009 A one-step microfluidic chip that can detect Late stage oxidation strategy passes the test disease markers in a single drop of blood in complex molecule synthesis serum

Interview: Building functional foods on Analyte sensing made easy the nanoscale 17 August 2009 22 September 2009 Drug abuse detected by antibody-coated Ian Norton talks to Phillip Broadwith about nanoparticles engineering the structure of foods to make them smarter and healthier Twist of fate for two-to-one assemblies 28 August 2009 Designing 3D DNA crystals Unique nanospiral structures could be useful 02 September 2009 for miniaturising optoelectronics DNA triangles have been designed that self- assemble into three-dimensional, macro- Instant insight: Understanding our food sized crystals 04 September 2009

Monika Pischetsrieder and Rainer Baeuerlein Mechanised nanocapsules target drug look at how the safety of GM food can be delivery assured 02 September 2009 Supramolecular machines attached to nanoparticles allow the controlled release of their encapsulated cargo

Chinese news supplement

Funding misuse shakes Chinese Cutting-edge drug pioneer goes to new science base battlefield On 1 September, the Central Audit Office Hu started his medical career as a barefoot released a shocking report, exposing 54 doctor working in the countrywide in the ministries or central government-affiliated remote northwestern Chinese province of

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institutions as having misused their funding. Heilongjiang

China's emissions to peak early Study questions Olympics air efforts This week a Chinese think tank formally Air pollution exceeded guidelines set by the predicted that the country has the potential World Health Organization (WHO) and was to reduce its carbon emissions significantly about one third higher than reported by earlier than previously expected. Chinese officials during the Games.

Heavy metal poisoning sparks protests Enamel regeneration makes scientists in China smile A serious case of pollution in Fengxiang 25 August 2009 County in northwestern Shaanxi Province in Chinese researchers are a step closer to being early August led to 174 children from three able to regrow tooth enamel in the mouth. villages being diagnosed with lead poisoning. Gold nanoparticles detect cancer Proposed rare metal ban unlikely to 19 August 2009 impact market Ultrasensitive detection platform uses China is planning a reshuffle of its rare earth nanoparticles to measure levels of cancer metal industry biomarkers Gene therapy in patent wars Superhydrophobicity saves scalding Peng Zhaohui, the father of the world's first commercialised gene therapy, Gendicine, is 14 July 2009 now fighting a legal war with the company Clothes could repel hot water with a Teflon- he established carbon nanotube composite coating

Slim access to China key drug scheme Ice gels take the heat funds 24 July 2009 Funding through China's multi-billion yuan Scientists have made a non-toxic scaffold for key drug development scheme could stem cell tissue engineering become harder to come by China News in brief Short items

Features

The spice of life On the rise Many of the world's favourite ingredients The ancient tradition of bread baking depends have more to offer than just flavour, says on a cascade of chemical reactions. Scientists Ned Stafford. Many also show health benefits have found myriad ways to modify the process, say Bryan Reuben and Tom Coultate In a fix Billions of people owe their lives to our The food detectives ability to grab nitrogen out of the air to Every day, scientists at RSSL's food analysis fertilise our crops. But there can be too labs in Reading, UK, investigate cases of food much of a good thing, reports Kira adulteration. Hayley Birch was let in on a few Weissman secrets of the trade

Boxing clever Food scientists are developing increasingly sophisticated packaging materials to extend shelf life of many foods. Nina Notman looks at the delicacies on offer

Opinion

Editorial: Food, glorious food! Column: In the pipeline Love it or hate it (who could!) most of us Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning are obsessed with it: we talk about it, we too heavily on favourite reactions cook it, we like to enjoy it with friends. Column: The crucible Agriculture's call for chemistry Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new Decades of underinvestment in agricultural research into the h-index and unearths some research have taken their toll but now is the top tips for citation-hungry researchers time to bring in young scientists to find new ways to feed the world, says Ian Crute Column: Totally Synthetic Haplophytine

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Culinary knowledge Column: Undercover academic French physical chemist Hervé This is one of A question of identity the founding fathers of molecular gastronomy. He takes James Mitchell Crow on a tour of the discipline - and dispels a few myths

Restaurant research 'Cooking is more than just science - or rather, it's something completely different,' says Ferran Adrià. He talks to Bibiana Campos-Seijo

Chemistry World Jobs

Company profile: Diet dedication Insider: Food forensics Mead Johnson has developed special When food is contaminated, teams of chemists products for children with diet-related are at hand to help track down the molecular problems for over 200 years, as Yfke Hager culprits, reports Sarah Houlton reports Careers clinic: CVs for postdocs Profile: Fabulous food Academic CVs are always lengthy but it's Denise Smith heads the food science important to know where to put the detail and department at Ohio State University, US. what to miss out, says Caroline Tolond She is thrilled by the large numbers of students switching to food science, as she tells Yfke Hager

Regulars

Letters Classic kit: Gadolin's condenser Chemistry World Letters, October 2009 Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- Software reviews and Inorganic Syntheses Chemistry World Software Reviews, October 2009 Flashback 25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain Reviews The last retort: Heavy life Chemistry World Reviews, October 2009 Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy

water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' Puzzles gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright? Puzzles, October 2009

Chemistry through the lens A vein in a piece of Blue Stilton cheese

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