SCI's next Members' Forum--you're invited!(SCI
Members forum)
SCI Corporate News
Following on from last year's highly successful inaugural
Members' Forum, SCI would like to invite you to the second
Members' Forum on 30 October 2008.
The Forum presents a . . .
SCI's Horticulture Group welcomes first academic and
corporate partners.(SCI partnership schemes)(Brief article)
SCI Corporate News
Duchy College in Rosewarne, Wiltshire College, Lackham, and the
Eden Project are the newest SCI Horticulture Group recruits to come on
board as the first academic and corporate . . .
Oil over troubled water: interview with Kevin
Smith.(Interview)(Unilever Colworth)(Interview)
Kevin Smith, chairman of SCI's Oils and Fats Committee and
lipid scientist at Unilever Colworth, talks to SCI about the recent
conference: 'Crystallisation & Physical Properties of Fats:
from . . .
127th AGM heralds new image for SCI: this year's AGM
provided a natural launch pad for a new look and feel SCI that saw it
insta
SCI Corporate News
Attended by approximately 80 members, this year's AGM gave SCI
the perfect opportunity to unveil a new image on all fronts--a new brand
together with newly revamped premises.
. . .
From here to metabolites.(Book review)
Metabolomics, metabonomics and metabolite profiling
William J Griffiths
(Editor)
Publisher: RSC
Year: 20078
Pages: 321
Price: 89 [pounds sterling]
ISBN: 978-0-85404-299-9
. . .
More than just hot air.(Book review)
Industrial Gases Processing
Edited by Heiz-Wolfgang Haring
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KgaA, Weineim
Year: 2007
Pages: 310
Price: 85.00 [pounds sterling]
ISBN: . . .
Organometallics.(Highlights)
Catalysed cycloadditions of nitrones
Dirhodium (+2) carboxylates {[Rh.sub.2][([O.sub.2]CR).sub.4]} and
related compounds are relatively mild Lewis acids. However, these
[Rh.sub.2.sup.4+] species . . .
Organic chemistry.(Highlights)
New hexacoordinate carbon
The twist in allenes places the substituents at the ends in planes
which are at 90[degrees] degrees to each other. This has provided an
unusual architecture to promote a . . .
Turning back the clock on climate change: a technology to reverse
climate change? To reduce ocean acidification? And that also p
The oceans are already the world's largest carbon sink,
soaking up a staggering 2bn tonnes of carbon every year. Adding alkalis
would make them even better, by increasing the seas' ability to
take . . .
Dressed for success: Cath O'Driscoll looks at some of the
performance-enhancing sportswear expected to be boosting athletes'
cap
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The knowledge that compromising pictures had been released on the
internet can't have helped the performance of former Olympic
champion swimmer Laure Manaudou in the French . . .
Olympic effort to beat cheats: the penalties for cheating in
Beijing will be tougher than ever.(Analytical science)
The use of performance-enhancing substances by Olympic athletes is
not new. They range from ground horse hooves or sheeps testicles in
ancient times to caffeine and even strychnine in the late 19th . . .
Can engineers solve global warming? Engineers have a vital role
in combating climate change but we cannot do it by ourselves. Ro
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Over the past 10 years, combating global warming has moved from a
subject discussed at environmental conferences to a main plank of
national and international policy. Few . . .
Diary.(News)(Calendar)
31 August-3 September, 5th International Conference on
Environmental Catalysis, Belfast, UK. Fax: +44 28 9097 4687, email:
5icec@qub. ac. uk, web: www.centacat, qub.ac.uk/5icec/index. html.
8-10 . . .
SABIC Innovative Plastics.(Movers & shakers)
SABIC Innovative Plastics has appointed Charlie Crew as ceo. Crew
was previously vice president and general manager of SABIC Innovative
Plastics' global ventures . . .
Biotech Sepal Pharma.(Movers & shakers)
Biotech Sepal Pharma has announced Frederic Revah as its new ceo.
Sepal specialises in the development of anticancer agents from the
jasmonate family of . . .
Resin Systems.(Movers & shakers)
Advanced composite material supplier Resin Systems has appointed
Dimitrios Leonidas as chief financial . . .
Lanxess.(Movers & shakers)(appointment of Jorge
Nogueira)(Brief article)
Jorge Nogueira has been appointed head of the Functional Chemicals
business unit of speciality chemicals group Lanxess. Nogueira joined
Lanxess from Rhone-Polence and will succeed current . . .
Altus Pharmaceuticals.(Movers & shakers)(appointment of
Georges Gemayel)(Brief article)
Altus Pharmaceuticals has appointed Georges Gemayel as ceo and a
member of the board of directors. Gemayel was executive vice president
and company officer at Genzyme prior to joining Altus. Altus . . .
National Skills Academy.(Movers & shakers)(Brief
article)
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The National Skills Academy has appointed Philip Jones as ceo,
taking over from interim ceo Craig Crowther. Ian Mains will be the new
business development manager and Liz . . .
Strategem IPM.(Movers & shakers)
Strategem IPM has announced that David Roberts will take over from
Laurence Jenkins as chairman. Strategem is a UK-based strategic
intellectual property management . . .
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