Features July 2005

Medicine gets personalised
Matching patients to treatments by screening their genetic makeup is the goal of some drugs companies. Andrew Scott explores the political, economic and scientific issues

Law-abiding industries
A chemist made some startling predictions 40 years ago that have driven the semiconductor and electronics industries ever since. Katharine Sanderson met Gordon Moore

The modus operandi of a forensic scientist
Jim Fraser has moved from police forensic work to academia. He talks to Bea Perks about the differences between analytical chemistry and forensic science and his plans for UK cours...

Saving a steam ship
Maria Burke discovers the chemical voyage being taken to rescue a once great ship and the state of the art home that will help preserve it

