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Chemistry World July 28, 2009 Sarah Houlton	ERC not up to scratch A review of the European Research Council, set up by the EU two years ago to promote high-risk, high-gain 'frontier' research, has concluded that although successful in attracting top-level scientists, the organization is riddled with fundamental operational problems
Chemistry World November 8, 2011 Walter & Howes	EPSRC sticks to its funding strategy guns The UK's principal chemistry funding body is pressing ahead with its controversial 'shaping capability' strategy. This is despite anger over the way the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has said it will decide which areas to prioritise in the physical sciences.
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Chemistry World January 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US science lead slips The US appears to be losing its global lead in science and technology according to data released by the US National Science Foundation.
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Chemistry World January 8, 2008 Ned Stafford	Young Chemists Win Share of ERC Windfall Jerusalem-based chemist Assaf Friedler wins one of the European Research Council's (ERC) prestigious grants for young researchers.
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique.
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Chemistry World February 25, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Government Heeds Concerns on Science Advice Rules The UK science minister has indicated that the scientific community's concerns over guidelines regarding scientific advice in government have been accommodated in developing the proposals.
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Ned Stafford	Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India.
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Ian Le Guillou	Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA Scientists have created microfluidic devices containing single-stranded DNA 'curtains' for the first time, allowing scientists to study its interactions with proteins in real time.
Chemistry World August 2010	Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level
Chemistry World August 6, 2009 Hayley Birch	Nanoscale tools from DNA origami US scientists have demonstrated a nanoconstruction approach that allows the creation of self-assembling DNA 'origami' folded in an array of different shapes, from bent rods to toothed gears. This opens new possibilities for engineering nanoscale tools and devices.
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Chemistry World September 23, 2010 Anna Lewcock	UK faces scientific exodus The UK faces a 'significant' risk of researchers abandoning its shores and long-term damage to the science base if proposed funding cuts go ahead
Chemistry World July 21, 2010 Carol Stanier	Building up graphene nanoribbons By using small molecule precursors, scientists have found a way to precisely build up sought after graphene nanoribbons, and make them in different shapes.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA forms nano waffles A method for stitching together strands of DNA yields microscopic waffled sheets and ribbons. The nanostructures make handy building materials that could help bridge the huge technological chasm between the realm of molecules and the merely microscopic.
Chemistry World November 7, 2011 Eugene Gerden	Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems.
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Ned Stafford	Commission Task Force Recommends Shake up of ERC A European Commission task force charged with evaluating the operating structure of the European Research Council has concluded that, although the Council has performed well in its first five years, changes are needed to improve its flexibility and efficiency.
Chemistry World July 4, 2010 Hayley Birch	DNA sticks at flick of switch A new technique that sticks individual DNA molecules to a gold surface works at the flick of an electrochemical switch.
Chemistry World November 11, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Three more scientists quit drugs council Three more members of the UK government's drugs advisory council have resigned, including renowned chemist Simon Campbell.
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Chemistry World December 2009 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: High hopes Comments from the editor on the Copenhagen climate negotiations, the role of the United States energy policy, and the dismissal of British science adviser, David Nutt.
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Chemistry World Ned Stafford	ERC concludes first phase of advanced grants The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the final cash handouts from its first ever 'Advanced Grants' competition, worth a total of 542 million, and launched the competition's second phase of funding.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	DNA prefers diamond DNA is particularly useful for sensing pathogens like those used in biological weapons. The trick to making sensors that can be used in the field may involve attaching strands of DNA to a thin film of diamond, preparing sensors to withstand the rigors of the real world.
Technology Research News August 22, 2005	DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale.
Chemistry World October 8, 2010 Akshat Rathi	India calls for ambitious increase in science funding The Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India has advised the government to increase its science funding from less than 1 per cent of GDP to up to 2.5 per cent by 2020.
Chemistry World March 2011	60 years of innovation To celebrate the international year of chemistry, James Mitchell Crow looks back at some of the discoveries and developments made by chemists over the past six decades
Chemistry World October 17, 2014 Ned Stafford	European scientists rally to protest jobs and funding crisis Scientists throughout Europe, frustrated with inadequate funding for research and a lack of jobs, are banding together to demand that policymakers at national and EU levels take action.
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals.
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Chemistry World December 18, 2009 Nina Notman	Cutting edge chemistry in 2009 We review the ground-breaking research and important trends of the year's published chemical science papers.
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Chemistry World January 11, 2008 John Bonner	DNA Nanoparticles Detect Gene Expression US scientists have made nanoparticles from DNA that they say could be used to identify the genes being expressed in a single cell.
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Chemistry World March 15, 2010 James Urquhart	All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers.
Chemistry World December 21, 2010 Laura Howes	Cutting edge chemistry in 2010 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in the year's chemical science papers.
Chemistry World October 2010	A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain