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The people of Croatia yesterday decided that the country’s future lay with the European Union, despite the financial turmoil afflicting the bloc. They resoundingly voted yes to joining the EU, with 66% in favour. However, only 43% of those eligible to vote bothered going to the ballot box. But what will this mean for the country’s research base?

Croatia won’t become a member state until 1 July 2013, but when it does it’ll have the opportunity to apply for funding from the EU just like every other member state. And there’s a huge pot of money out there right now, after Horizon 2020 (the successor to the Framework Programme 7) was set to receive €80 billion in the EU’s budget. However, Croatian researchers looking to get their hands on some of that cash could find it more difficult than they imagine, if newer member states’ experiences are anything to go by. Scientists in countries like Hungary and Slovenia found that competition for EU funding was extremely tough, with much of it still going to the richer countries with the best funded labs, which this recent news article in Chemistry World looks at.

Patrick Walter

                  

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and
Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/db2156/brazil_in_vitro_di)
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"Brazil
In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2017 - Clinical
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shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories.

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Companies Mentioned:

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Siemens Healthcare

Abbott Laboratories

bioMerieux S.A.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

HORIBA, Ltd.

Becton, Dickinson and Company

Sysmex Corporation

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc.

DiaSorin S.p.A

Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Alere Inc.

Phadia AB

Qiagen N.V.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Gen-Probe Incorporated

PerkinElmer, Inc.

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What is it that makes a man a man? Well, chemically, it’s testosterone isn’t it? But this compound doesn’t just separate the men from the boys – it’s helped unscrupulous athletes of both sexes stand out from the field too. Simon Cotton tells a steroid’s story in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

                  

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Did you get a new tablet for Christmas? Was Father Christmas so incredibly generous in these times of austerity that you are now the proud owner of a brand new iPad? Whether you were lucky enough to get one of the said gadgets or already had one, don’t miss out and make sure the new Chemistry World app is in your list to download.

We have just launched the iPad and Android apps for Chemistry World and these are now available completely free of charge on the App Store and Android Market, respectively, until 1 April. Indeed, until that date anyone interested in reading Chemistry World via an app will be able to download it following one of the links above (whichever is relevant for your device) and then access the content using the following login details:

Username – freetrial

Password – rscchemworld

Once logged in you will be able to view not only the latest issue of Chemistry World but also all the back issues going back to January 2011.

After 1 April, content will be once again restricted to members and e-members who will be able to gain access using their personal login details. So get downloading!  And, of course, let us know what you think. Please send any feedback to chemistryworld@rsc.org

Bibiana Campos-Seijo

                  

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The other day I got out of the office and went to poke around the London Centre for Nanotechnology’s labs at Imperial College London. It’s always great to meet people and put faces to names, but it’s also sometimes really helpful to actually see the equipment that’s used. It’s all very well to read about pulsed laser deposition, for example, but it’s another thing entirely to nose around the HUGE piece of kit that is actually used to do it. Sometimes it seems like you need even bigger equipment as you start working at smaller scales.

— Titan Microscope

About half of what you can see is the aberration correction section that allows such good resolution

OK, that’s a bit of a generalisation maybe. But the TITAN microscope, with its aberration correction,shows that to get true atomic resolution, the equipment needs to be even bigger than before. But although the kit that corrects for the spherical symmetry of the lenses adds to the height of the microscope, it means you can see brilliantly sharp images of crystal lattices and interfaces, or where metal nanoparticles end up in cells.

I also had a real brain work out looking at the work being done on magnetic monopoles in synthetic spin ices, that made me realise that sometimes the simple things you take for granted are the things you really don’t understand at all. Essentially these monopoles can jump around the lattice much like electrons on a semiconductor, or at least that’s how I’ve come to terms with it in my brain. Currently though, these phenomena aren’t very well understood and only happen at very low (sub 10K) temperatures, but could lead to spintronics and molecular memory devices. So, a bit more complex than the shaking iron filings around a bar magnet.

The real fun came a bit later though, when I got to play with the Emisense liquid scanner. I’m sure we’re all frustrated with the small amount of liquids that we’re allowed to take in hand luggage and loads of people are working on ways to test liquids when you go through security. Personally though, I don’t really want anyone opening up my water and sticking probes or dip sticks inside. Ideally you need a scanner that works at about the same speed as the trundling x-ray scanner that checks your suitcase for nail files. The EMILI 2 uses an evanescent microwave field to identify liquids using dielectric permittivity, molecular relaxation and ionic conductivity. More importantly it does this quickly (within a second of you putting ta bottle on the scanner) and gives a simple yes/no readout, as you can see below.

— Emisense

Water good, peroxide bad

We’ll have to wait and see whether this makes it to an airport near you, but if it does you can say you saw it here first.

Laura Howes

                  

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