March 2007
Vol 4, No.3
News and analysis
Hafnium oxide helps make chips smaller and faster
Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips
Women honoured with international prize
The 2007 L'Oreal Unesco awards for women in science were announced at a ceremony in Paris on 22 February
High street Viagra sales fuel marketing controversy
Men in the UK are now able to buy Viagra from a pharmacist without a doctor's prescription
The million dollar microscope
Leica Microsystems GmbH plan to put the first commercial Sted systems on sale this autumn
News in brief
Short items
Business roundup
Industry news
Funding briefs
Short items
New on the market
New products - March 2007
In the papers...
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Chemical science
Demonic devices make densest memory
Rotaxanes used in chemical computing can drive thermodynamics in reverse
'Ultimate microscope' in sight
26 January 2007
No lenses and fancy computing boosts x-ray resolving power
LSD reveals its secrets
31 January 2007
The mechanism behind mind-bending trips caused by hallucinogens has been uncovered by a US study.
DNA-based detection for uranium
05 February 2007
High sensitivity and selectivity claimed for a portable sensor that detects most common form of uranium.
Slim-line silicon speeds up protein separation
14 February 2007
Ultra-slim silicon membranes: from labs on chips to artificial kidneys.
Nano-pumpkins fitted for drug delivery
12 February 2007
Surface modification of polymerised nanocapsules.
First synchrotron for neutral molecules
22 January 2007
Device can probe behaviour of ultracold compounds
Snakes have a soft spot for heart-stopping toad toxins
30 January 2007
Toads far from happy about the deal
Proteins join forces for wound healing
26 January 2007
UK scientists provide fresh insight into the protein-mediated events behind wound healing.
Nervous response to drugs
12 February 2007
A non-destructive way to monitor cells reveals potential Alzheimer drug's effect on neurons.
Nanoparticles bond like atoms in a molecule
18 January 2007
Hairy ball theorem used to get isotropic nanoparticles linking up in a chain.
Bubbles put the logic into lab-on-a-chip
08 February 2007
Microfluidic processors use bubbles as 'bits'
Simply biofuels
13 February 2007
A simple enzyme-based biofuel cell has been made by a team of Japanese scientists.
That's swell: hydrogel plugs in control
30 January 2007
American researchers have used hydrogels to control the flow of liquid in microfluidic devices.
Instant insight: Delivering the goods
09 February 2007
Stefaan De Smedt and Bruno De Geest of Ghent University, Belgium, weigh up the pros and cons of using polyelectrolyte capsules as drug delivery vehicles
Features
Riding the RAE rollercoaster
UK academics will soon be bracing themselves for the 2008 research assessment exercise, the last of its kind before a hotly debated metrics system takes over.
The one-stop science shop
From mass spectrometers to lab reagents, the newly formed Thermo Fisher Scientific sells it all.
The terahertz gap: into the dead zone
New materials are opening up applications for terahertz radiation in the physical, biological and medical sciences. Joe McEntee reports
Chemistry for the common good
Marcellin Berthelot was a man of many talents, combining ground breaking chemical research with a busy and successful political career, as Mike Sutton finds out
Regulars
Opinion: In the pipeline
Do the benefits of pharmaceutical company mergers really outweigh the costs, asks Derek Lowe
Opinion: The crucible
Understanding why nature's materials are so smart could be the first step to educating our own dumb polymers, argues Philip Ball
Crossword and Su Doku
Prize crossword and Su Doku, March 2007
The last retort: MySpace: the final frontier
There are more than 140 million registered users on MySpace
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