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Allergan buys MAP for $958m

25 January 2013 Business

Deal strengthens Allergan's position in neurology with Levadex for treating migraine

CSIRO: a translation agency

25 January 2013 The Insider

James Mitchell Crow meets the scientists making a difference at Australia’s national science organisation

Name reactions: how does the label stick?

25 January 2013 In the Pipeline

Derek Lowe investigates the long running tradition of naming reactions after their inventors

Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident

25 January 2013 Research

Scientists in the US believe the health consequences from the Japanese nuclear accident may have been underestimated

Indian supreme court’s anger over unregulated clinical trials

25 January 2013 News and Analysis

Tales of collusion between drug companies and regulators leads court to criticise the government

Switchable catenane ready for data storage

25 January 2013 Research

A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory

OM Group to exit cobalt business

24 January 2013 Business

Deal worth up to $435 million includes downstream activities, in particular cobalt refining in Kokkola, Finland

Vasella to leave Novartis in August

24 January 2013 Business

Long serving chair of the board of directors will be succeeded by Jörg Reinhardt

Hyperforin

24 January 2013 Totally Synthetic

A flexible natural product synthesis is the key to later drug development

Coolidge’s x-ray tube

24 January 2013 Classic Kit

A light to reveal the atomic order of the world

Environmentally friendly alternative to toxic heavy metals in paint

24 January 2013 Research

Enzyme catalysts are more environmentally friendly paint drying agents than cobalt catalysts

Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?

24 January 2013 Research

Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets

Oxytocin

23 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Josh Howgego prepares to socialise - and tells us why 'cuddle chemicals' are too good to be true

Too many scientists?

23 January 2013 Comments

The proliferation of PhDs is unsustainable and damaging, says Paula Stephan.

Campaign to save Royal Institution's London home

23 January 2013 News and Analysis

Scientists and the public rally to stop the sale of the building that housed Davy's and Faraday's labs after charity runs into financial difficulties

Chemical climate proxies

23 January 2013 Feature

How do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry

Flu vaccine without the eggs approved

22 January 2013 Business

Flublok does not require flu virus or eggs for manufacture

Post-publication peer review blog launches

22 January 2013 News and Analysis

Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowd sourced

Mopping up oil spills with marshmallows

22 January 2013 Research

Aerogel can suck up hydrocarbons from water, be wrung out and then reused

India pushes for emergency drug licences

21 January 2013 Business

Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs

Flow synthesis for anticancer drug

21 January 2013 Research

A rapid, multi-step flow process has been developed to synthesise the anticancer drug Gleevec

Global convention to limit mercury agreed

21 January 2013 News and Analysis

World signs up to treaty to ban export of mercury but sticking points remain over artisanal mining and coal power plants

Cleaning up

18 January 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)

From washing clothes to saving lives, the products of Phil Souter’s watery work can be found across the globe, as Helen Carmichael finds out

New method to target malaria

18 January 2013 Research

By modifying an atomic force microscope tip with heparin, blood cells infected with the malaria parasite can be targeted

EU food agency links pesticides to bee decline

18 January 2013 News and Analysis

Agency says neonicotinoids should only be used on crops bees avoid but agrichemical companies dispute its findings