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The Changing Role of Chemistry in Drug Discovery

The Changing Role of Chemistry in Drug Discovery - In this, the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011), Thomson Reuters offers a timely report that examines how life in drug discovery has changed and how it will continue to change and adapt in the future. 'The Changing Role Of Chemistry In Drug Discovery' delivers an action-packed review of the changing role of Chemistry and of Chemists in today's drug discovery research programs. The report analyzes and develops the major themes identified and highlighted by key players in the global pharmaceutical industry. Many of their insights are fully supported by analysis of data taken from the Integrity drug discovery database for the period 2001-2011.

Robert Slinn interviewed key pharma leaders for this report written by David Bradley.

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Cat litter to become an edible product?

  • Cat litter to become an edible product? - A team of scientists from Spain and France has obtained for the first time single-crystal X-ray diffraction images of sepiolite, opening the path to industrial synthesis and further improvement of its properties.
  • Chemist and writer Robert Slinn gives us his Slinn Pickings from the world of chemistry.

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    UC Riverside physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atom

  • UC Riverside physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atom - Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened to antimatter in the universe, why nature favored matter over antimatter at the universe's creation.
  • Chemist and writer Robert Slinn gives us his Slinn Pickings from the world of chemistry.