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Issue 3
8th
February 2010
C&I Magazine
C&I MagazineThe leading source of news and opinion in the arena of chemical technology
Cover Story
Modern interpretations of the traditional periodic table are gaining in
popularity and reveal a lot more about the elements than their weight and
atomic number, reports Cath O’Driscoll
News
Emma Dorey,
08/02/2010
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has
announced an initiative to encourage
new research into neglected tropical
diseases, primarily malaria.
Andrew Turley,
08/02/2010
Bacteria that can produce ‘high-energy’
biofuels, such as biodiesel, direct from
simple sugars, or light up in coordinated
waves could provide a turning point in
the fortunes of synthetic biology – a
field that has so far failed to fulfil its
early promise.
Features
Neil Eisberg,
08/02/2010
Industry is taking the green message to heart as
the cleaning products sector demonstrated at a
recent US conference, Neil Eisberg reports
Cynthia Challener,
08/02/2010
Food and flavour companies are increasingly adopting high throughput screening
approaches as used by the pharmaceutical industry to identify novel compounds,
writes Cynthia Challener
Editor's Blog
Popular science
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Despite all the recent news about falling university applications from students in the UK, due, it is claimed, to the increased fee levels that are now in force, the attraction of science courses appears to be undiminished. In fact, some science subjects may be even more popular in terms of gaining a degree than recent increases in applications may have indicated.
According to figures published last week by the UK higher education admissions service (UCAS), applications from budding chemical engineers have increased by 12.4% to reach 11,890, compared with the same time in 2011. Although overall applications for physical sciences have fallen slightly by 0.6%, applications for all UK university courses have fallen by over 7%. These are the first figures to have been published since the introduction of higher tuition fees, which have risen as high as £9000/year.