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$500m fine over generics fraud for Ranbaxy

23 May 2013 Business

Company has pleaded guilty to fabricating data and producing substandard drugs

Filming phonons

23 May 2013 Research

Femtosecond film captures vibrations in gold nanocrystal

Egyptian research budget ‘unspent’

23 May 2013 News and Analysis

Egypt's ministry of scientific research faces funding cuts, after failing to spend most of this year's budget.

Flying: heavier or lighter than air?

23 May 2013 Last Retort

Hydrogen balloons have fallen out of favour, except in chemistry demonstrations

The power of multivalency against cholera

23 May 2013 Research

Inhibitor combines a pentavalent scaffold with cell membrane sugar to trick and trap the cholera toxin

Understanding sulfa drugs' side effects

23 May 2013 Research

Over 70 years since their first use, scientists discover how sulfanonamide drugs cause their neurological side effects

Microwaves show their hand

23 May 2013 Research

New technique can tell left from right even at low concentrations

Compulsory licences: necessity or threat?

23 May 2013 Comments

Are compulsory licences for patent-protected drugs a necessary measure, or a threat to innovation?

US Supreme Court rules in favour of Monsanto

22 May 2013 News and Analysis

An Indiana farmer who was trying to replicate Monsanto-patented seeds infringed on the company’s intellectual property rights, the Supreme Court has determined

Lords Bill proposes animal research labelling for medicines

22 May 2013 News and Analysis

Bill aims to underline the necessity of animal experiments, says Robert Winston

Cathinone

22 May 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Simon Cotton introduces us to cathinone, the active ingredient in the stimulant Khat

Digitally unrolling historical scrolls

22 May 2013 Research

X-ray tomography can unroll and read parchment scrolls that have become stuck together.

Life forming

22 May 2013 Review

A model marriage of the mortal and the molecular

Notebooks go digital

22 May 2013 Review

Electronic lab notebooks are growing in popularity across chemistry. Anthony King looks at what’s on the market

B-vitamins may delay Alzheimer’s onset

21 May 2013 Research

Taking B-vitamins keeps brain tissue healthier for longer, and may help stave off dementia

Silver nanoparticles see the light

21 May 2013 Research

New method makes nanoparticles luminescent but mechanism remains unexplained

Manipulating liquid metal marbles

21 May 2013 Research

A new dimension to actuation

Nuclear and radiochemistry

21 May 2013 Review

Gone fission

Petition calls for science minister to go

20 May 2013 News and Analysis

Russian scientists begin campain for reforms in science and higher education policy to be altered

RNA world hypothesis strengthened by iron

20 May 2013 Research

Back when oxygen was scarce, ancient RNA catalysts may have used iron as a cofactor

Taking the shine off

20 May 2013 Research

Safe and efficient art conservation using ionic liquids

Growing a microgarden

17 May 2013 Research

Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment

3D printer churns out bionic ear

17 May 2013 Research

Seamless integration of electronics and tissue could be used with other artificial implants and synthetic organs

An udder cuppa?

16 May 2013 Research

A chemical analysis of tea suggests cows should be chewing the cha

Australian budget hits higher education hard

16 May 2013 News and Analysis

Chemists hope that central relevance of their science to the big questions will afford them some protection from cuts