China invests more than $1bn in drug safety
News
In a bid to improve its food and drug safety, China has announced it will invest 8.8 billion yuan (US$1.16 billion) in the coming four years to improve its food and drug inspection and monitoring infrastructure.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 14, 2007
Polarising the debate?
Features
Fluorochemicals are still causing concern. Emma Davies finds out how polar bears and microwaved popcorn reignited the contamination debate
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 14, 2007
The burning issue
Features
In an effort to clean up fossil-fuel power stations, scientists have completed a project to create ceramic straws that can produce a stream of pure oxygen from air.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 08, 2007
Antibiotic combinations tackle resistance
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Using combinations of certain antimicrobial compounds can favour the growth of non-resistant strains of bacteria at the expense of resistant ones.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 08, 2007
Better, stronger, faster
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Now we have bionic eyes and limbs, and chemists are creating artificial bodily tissues to rival nature's own
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 14, 2007
Safer storage of nuclear waste
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Nuclear waste repositories could be safer places thanks to UK chemists.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: August 14, 2007
RSC Publishing pioneers next generation of enriched articles
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RSC Publishing is pleased to announce a new initiative for its journals.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: February 22, 2007
Fries to go?
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Five years after acrylamide's discovery in foods, industry is still hard at work trying to cut levels of the potential carcinogen in popular convenience products. But does dietary acrylamide actually do us any harm? Emma Davies investigates
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: January 31, 2007
BBC and GSK battle over Seroxat
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UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, which has spent the past few years fighting off accusations of risks associated with its market-leading antidepressant Seroxat, has rejected fresh claims that it improperly withheld medical trial information in the 1990s.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: January 31, 2007
Living on credits
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One way to tackle global warming is to give people a 'carbon ration' that limits their emission of greenhouse gases.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Date Published: January 31, 2007
