A short week, still lots of interesting chemistry-related tidbits:
- I thought this Andrea Widener article about the difficulties that NIH and NSF are having with more grant proposals (and the logistics of sorting through them) was really interesting.
- Also by Andrea Widener, C&EN's writeup of the DuPont methanethiol accident.
- Thanks to Carmen Drahl's article, I understand that Google X has hired a variety of chemists to work on nanoparticles towards better medical diagnostics. Pretty cool.
- (This, presumably, is a good response to Peter Thiel's critique that Silicon Valley doesn't know what to do with its money.)
- Interesting article by Maureen Rouhi on an ACS Shanghai chapter and their collaboration with E.J. Corey. (The standard conference pic in front of a Microsoft wallpaper background is funny.)
- Jyllian Kemsley and Marc Reisch cover the exit of Agilent from the NMR business. I didn't know that Bruker is already responding to its new hegemonic position by removing discounts.
I wonder what were they thinking five years ago when they bought the NMR business from Varian.
ReplyDeletereportedly, Agilent bought Varian for their profiable high vacuum pump product line, but the NMR business of Varian has been operating at a loss even before the company sale...
DeleteMan, Bruker killed most of the Varian GCMS biz they got out of that deal, too.
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