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Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Arthur Rogers	Reach Talks Break Down With time running out for agreement on Reach, the European Union's regulatory regime for chemicals, year-long discussions between the European parliament and EU states have broken down.
Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core.
Chemistry World November 24, 2006	Washing Machine Triggers Nanoparticle Regulation Wrangles over a washing machine have pressured America's EPA to regulate commercial products containing silver nanoparticles as a pesticide. But it is not yet clear how the policy will be enforced.
Chemistry World November 23, 2006 Victoria Gill	Bacteria That Help Fight Cancer Scientists have given a new meaning to the term `friendly bacteria' by discovering a bacterial protein that helps treat cancer.
Chemistry World November 22, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Scientists Crack Ancient Crucible Recipe Archaeologists have revealed the secret of the exceptionally heat-resistant crucibles that were exported all over the world from Hesse, now in modern Germany, by the 15th century. The secret was mullite.
Chemistry World November 21, 2006 Victoria Gill	Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients.
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly.
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Lionel Milgrom	Carbon Nanotubes: Saladin's Secret Weapon Carbon nanotubes are no longer the proud boast of 21st century materials scientists. It appears their discovery was unwittingly preempted by medieval Muslim sword-smiths whose tough Damascus blades taught the Crusaders the true meaning of cold steel.
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Michael Gross	Nanoribbons Put Electrons in a Spin A small ribbon made of the carbon honeycomb pattern found in graphite and nanotubes could display intriguing electronic properties and serve as a material for spin-based electronics (spintronics), researchers have predicted.
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Arthur Rogers	Mercury Legislation Rises Then Falls Plans for EU restrictions on mercury have been thrown into confusion by European Parliament moves to exempt small firms that make and repair barometers.
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