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Chemistry World February 5, 2008 Henry Nicholls	Quinine Synthesis Mystery Solved Two organic chemists claim to have settled a major dispute over the first synthesis of quinine by revisiting an experiment performed over 90 years ago.
Chemistry World February 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	DNA Cages Change Size on Demand Scientists have designed dynamic DNA cages which expand or contract on demand -- and could be used to deliver drugs, or be the moving parts of nanomachines.
Chemistry World February 4, 2008 Rebecca Trager	EPA Rolls Out Nanomaterials Safety Drive The agency has launched a new voluntary program to glean more information about nanoscale materials in an effort to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology-enabled products.
Chemistry World February 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Green Chemistry Aids Bone Repair A biodegradable polymer made with green solvents can mend broken thigh bones in mice, researchers have shown.
Reactive Reports Issue 72 David Bradley	Ice Age the Movie The ordered structure of ice dissolves little by little into disorder when a tiny burst of light hits an ice crystal.
Reactive Reports Issue 72 David Bradley	Butanol Biofuel Bandwagon Chemical manufacturer DuPont and oil company BP announced a collaboration with British Sugar to convert sugar beets into butanol as a gasoline-blending additive. Now, others are jumping aboard the butanol bandwagon.
Chemistry World February 2008 Philip Ball	Column: The Crucible Phlogiston was actually a pretty good idea.
Chemistry World February 2008 Dylan Stiles	Column: Bench Monkey Cast a skeptical eye over new ideas in chemistry.
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals.
Chemistry World January 29, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Microsoft Ventures Into Open Access Chemistry Computational chemists have secured funding from computing giant Microsoft to showcase how chemistry can benefit from open access data sharing on the internet.
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