At the tipping point
Pharmaceuticals have been considered the darling of all the chemistry-related industrial and research sectors for the last few years, even decades, but can they maintain that position in the future?
Pharma riding high?
Big Pharma appears to have survived 2008 much better than Big Chemicals, according to its executives speaking at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, US, recently. Despite some fall b...
Still plenty of room
In his play As You Like It, William Shakespeare describes the Seven Ages of Man, from the infant ‘mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms’, through ‘the whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shinin...
Food, glorious food! What is there more handsome?
As Lionel Bart’s lyrics from his musical Oliver! emphasise there is nothing like good food. And everyone of us, as we tuck into our breakfast, lunch or dinner, assumes that what we are eating is safe ...
Going greener
Despite the introduction of dozens of green chemical products that have become commercially available since 1995, together with significant numbers of chemical production process that have been re-engineered for ‘greener’ reaction conditions, there is still much work to be done
Home from home
'The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a great refuge from home life', according to George Bernard Shaw, but, as most readers would probably agree, we all expect a hotel to be at the very least...