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Chemistry World September 11, 2014 Rebecca Trager	NIH audit turns up plague bacteria and ricin US National Institutes of Health initiated a sweep of its facilities to uncover any improperly stored dangerous agents, toxins or hazardous biological materials. That search has now revealed several instances of lax oversight.
Chemistry World September 11, 2014 Anu Daniel	Poplar biofuel has potential to offer substantial environmental savings Biofuels have long been suggested as part of the solution to curbing greenhouse gas emissions and our reliance on oil but a new study is seeking to ease the bottleneck in them being adopted on a global scale.
Chemistry World September 10, 2014 Andy Extance	'Assembly line' sculpts carbon chains UK chemists have devised a precise process for building carbon chains a link at a time that packs in more side groups than biologically-derived molecules can.
Chemistry World September 10, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Antimalarial flow synthesis closer to commercialization Scientists in Germany have demonstrated the large scale and inexpensive production of a range of antimalarial drugs, using a continuous flow system.
Chemistry World September 8, 2014 Emma Stoye	CPU heat powers PCR disease detection Scientists in the US have devised a new way of carrying out blood tests -- based on a modified computer and camera phone -- that could lower the costs of disease screening in developing countries.
Chemistry World September 8, 2014 Harriet Brewerton	Higher levels of some metals in e-cigarette smoke A study comparing secondhand emissions from e-cigarettes and conventional tobacco ones reveals that although e-cigarettes release much lower levels of most harmful compounds, they actually discharge more nickel and silver than tobacco cigarettes.
Chemistry World September 7, 2014 Michael Gross	Bringing chemical synthesis to the masses The promise of a novel approach to building chemical libraries, which only requires simple building blocks in water, without any additional reagents or sample preparation, is inspired by nature.
Chemistry World September 5, 2014 Katie Lian Hui Lim	Urine test could catch lung cancer early Lung cancer could be identified earlier, thanks to a new test that uses surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to detect a cancer biomarker in urine.
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Hayley Simon	Noble treatment for PTSD Xenon may one day become a promising new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder following an investigation by researchers at Harvard Medical School, US.
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Philip Ball	Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones.
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