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Chemistry World November 10, 2015 Hepeng Jia |
China's first science Nobel prize exposes anxiety on research Artemisinin saves tens of thousands of lives every year. The story of its discovery has been debated for decades in China. The awarding of the medicine Nobel prize has only served to reopen old wounds. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World May 2007 Lisa Melton |
Chinese Medicine in Western Packaging The past decade has seen a global awakening to the truly curative powers of many ancient medicines, from black bear bile to the Asian plant Epimedium. |
Chemistry World November 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World December 19, 2007 Hepeng Jia |
Boom and Bust for Antimalarial Industry At first there was a global shortage, but now a surplus of artemisinin threatens to put some drug manufacturers out of business. |
Chemistry World June 17, 2015 James Urquhart |
Promising compound offers single dose knock-out for malaria Ian Gilbert and colleagues, working with the Medicines for Malaria Venture, have found a compound dubbed DDD107498 which kills Plasmodium falciparum -- the species responsible for most dangerous form of malaria. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
DNA repair research takes the 2015 chemistry Nobel The 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for unraveling how cells deal with DNA damage. |
Chemistry World March 30, 2010 Mike Sutton |
Sir James Black, OM (1924-2010) As if discovering beta-blockers and creating the world's first blockbuster drug wasn't enough, Sir James Whyte Black earned the 1988 Nobel prize for physiology and medicine and changed the way we search for new drugs. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Malaria Drug Cures Mice with Single Dose U.S. chemists have adapted a Chinese herbal medicine to create a new generation of antimalarial drugs which could solve some of the current crop's failings. |
Science News October 12, 2002 |
A Prized Worm This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to researchers who pioneered the use of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans as an animal model for exploring basic processes involved in the development and behavior of multicellular organisms. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2015 Philip Robinson |
A Nobel purpose The Nobel categories are fields that support Nobel's humanitarian goals, and looking at this year's awards, there is a notable humanitarian, even humanist, flavor. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2013 Gordon Woods |
Nobel near miss The Periodic Table and a Missed Nobel Prize by Ulf Lagerkvist and edited by Erling Norrby, is aimed at the general science reader interested in the history of the development of scientific thought. There are biographies of many European scientists. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Nobility The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman at Technion in Haifa, Israel, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2014 Carmen Nobel |
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2015 |
Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection. |
Chemistry World April 10, 2013 Hayley Birch |
Yeast to make malaria drug on demand A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast. |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Living the Nobel life In Lindau, Germany, groups of Nobel prize winners are invited to meet with a new generation of young scientists. This year was the chemists' turn and the theme of this year's event was renewable energy and climate change |
Chemistry World December 11, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2015 Innovations in chemistry this year include development of an Ebola vaccine, prize winning antimalarial drug research, and discovery of microstructures in bird feathers. |
Chemistry World April 2008 Victoria Gill |
Malaria no More? A fresh round of research funding could put an end to the killer disease. |
Chemistry World November 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Ozone Four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions... The health of the ozone layer is still in intensive care but the long-term prognosis is good... |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Einhorn & Kripalani |
Wanted: New Weapons Against An Old Killer Many of the new malaria medicines are in early stages of development. But with tsunami-hit countries receiving billions in aid there may finally be both the will and the means to tackle one of the world's most dangerous diseases. |
Chemistry World April 29, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Wieland's chemistry Nobel to be sold at auction The chemistry Nobel prize awarded to German chemist Heinrich Wieland in 1927 has been put up for auction at Nate D Sanders in Los Angeles, US, with a starting price of $325,000. |
Scientific American October 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world s worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2014 |
Live blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize The bloggers offer their comments on the developing Nobel Prize story and winners for 2014. |
Scientific American September 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
Chemistry World October 18, 2006 Ned Stafford |
Nobel Lobbying Skews Prizes, Chemist Claims US success among the 2006 Nobel prizes has prompted a top German chemist to complain that US domination in recent years has more to do with lobbying efforts than with superiority over European peers. |
Fast Company September 2006 Tonya Garcia |
Miracle Microbes In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, molecular manipulation may yield cheap and effective malaria drugs. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2012 Andy Extance |
Tube-wrapped lamp makes malaria drug German researchers have developed an inexpensive three-step continuous flow synthesis of artemisinin, the key drug in the ongoing fight against malaria. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Malaria disaster risk Two studies could spell disaster for malaria management, with the first evidence of a malarial strain resistant to a first-line drug, and signs that a widely used insect repellent could be neurotoxic. |
CIO April 1, 2002 Meridith Levinson |
A Nobel Effort To promote a deeper understanding of the Nobel laureates' work, the foundation has turned its website (www.nobel.se), first established in 1995, into a virtual museum... |