Golden Era?
After many years spent looking enviously across the Atlantic at the funding available to US biotech start-ups from eager venture capitalists, has the UK biotech sector finally entered a ‘golden era’?
SCI faces up to the challenges of 2018
2017 has been a year of change. SCI itself has undergone some major changes, from the development of a new website – going live next year – to the introduction of our Bright SCIdea Challenge to encourage entrepreneurship in students.
Action not words
It was entirely appropriate that UK business secretary Greg Clarke unveiled the UK government’s long-awaited White Paper on Industrial Strategy at the Francis Crick Institute in London at the end of November.
Fifty shades of Brexit
When singer/songwriter Paul Simon wrote ‘Fifty ways to leave your lover’, he would have had no idea that the European Chemical Industries Council (Cefic) would re-work it for its 2017 annual Chemical Congress in Vienna into ‘Fifty ways to leave the EU’.
Oceans apart
The recent spate of devastating hurricanes that hit the Caribbean and the US, making the 2017 season one of the worst for many years, has refocused attention on the potential economic impact of global warming
Chemical footprint
Most of us should by now be aware of carbon footprinting, calculating the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organisation, or community, and therefore focused on energy consumption and efficiency, but a new US footprinting approach has turned its attention to chemicals.
Under pressure
The global pharmaceutical industry is at a critical point, as Magid Abou-Gharbia, director of Temple University's Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research, told delegates at CPhI/Informex, held in Philadelphia, US, in April 2017.
Sun King rules
Solar power made up 25% of the UK's energy mix on the afternoon of 26 May 2017, a weekday, generating 8.7GW of power, more than coal and nuclear combined, and second only to gas-fired generation
Death of a king
Economic energy is a key factor in the success of the chemical industry, not just in the UK but around the world, whether it is derived from coal, natural gas or alternative to fossil fuels, like biomass, solar, wind or nuclear energy.