/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2008-07-02T07:24:11-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/07/02/more_pfizer_layoffs.php Unfortunately, I’m getting reports of significant chemistry layoffs coming this fall at Pfizer’s Groton facility. Rumors of all sorts seem to be going around: one indication is that this is going to hit both PhD and associate chemists, as opposed... 73410@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2008-07-02T07:24:11-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/05/29/nullius_in_verba.php Since I was talking the other day about the analytical habit of mind, this is a good time to link to an article by someone who has it like few other people alive: Freeman Dyson, who is thankfully still with... 73337@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2008-05-29T08:08:39-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/01/16/judah_folkman.php So Judah Folkman is no longer with us. He's considered to be the father of the idea that many tumors help to make their own blood supply, through angiogenesis, and that this could be a way to impede their growth.... 73027@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Cancer 2008-01-16T08:20:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/01/09/ah_politics.php I’ve got a big post ready to go on the subject of money and the drug industry, but since I figure everyone has a political hangover this morning, I’ll wait until tomorrow to put that one up. I was up... 73011@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2008-01-09T09:21:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/12/unnatural_and_proud_of_it.php The Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesis doesn’t intrude itself into the public consciousness much, but this year’s Nobel gave it a bit of a push. One thing I’ve noticed, though, is that whenever the topic of artificial fertilization comes up, it always... 72772@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-10-12T07:21:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/10/ertl_wins_down_with_witchcraft.php As some had speculated, the Nobel in chemistry did take a turn toward physical chemistry this year, for the first time in some while. Gerhard Ertl has won for his work on reactions that take place on solid surfaces, an... 72764@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chemical News 2007-10-10T07:21:28-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/09/nobel_chemistry_odds.php Paul Bracher over at Chembark has posted an extensive list of Nobel odds, just in time for tomorrow's announcement. For the record, I think that if it's a more biologically-oriented award - and hey, in recent years that's just what... 72763@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-10-09T20:14:58-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/08/nobel_season.php The Nobel in Medicine has gone this year to the inventors of gene-knockout techniques for mice, which seems well-deserved, considering how much has been learned through such experiments. This is, in fact, one of those discoveries that you'd think was... 72761@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-10-08T08:39:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/05/the_choir_hears_it_again.php Over at Life Sciences Daily, Ogan Gurel has a post on the recent FDA Avandia vote that's worth reading. That's not so much for the Avandia news, which we all know about now - the main focus of the piece... 72558@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-08-05T21:08:50-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/07/13/pour_encourager_les_autres.php There have been a couple of drug safety issues here in the US over the last few years - you may have heard about one or two of them. Less well known, unless you're in the industry, have been the... 72488@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-07-13T06:10:42-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/06/17/access_to_science.php Via Pharyngula, I came across this impassioned blog post on the problems that amateurs (and their children) have getting chemicals, lab equipment, and other science supplies these days. Regulatory attempts to cut down on access to potential explosives and company... 72409@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-06-17T20:32:05-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/04/29/time_to_conduct_some_business.php It's been nearly three months since my former workplace closed its laboratory doors. By now, many of my co-workers have landed positions, although certainly not all. The experiences have varied widely: some of the associates were able to move to... 72264@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-04-29T19:49:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/04/12/layoffs_again.php I've heard from more than one source that Pfizer has laid off a large number of research staff this week in Groton. This seems to have taken people by surprise in many cases, since the expectation was just that everyone... 72209@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Business and Markets 2007-04-12T08:07:03-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/02/26/hedgehogs_in_stockholm.php F. Albert Cotton's recent demise brings up a question that traditionally comes up in the fall, during Nobel season. Cotton himself never won the prize, although his name came up constantly in the list of contenders. There's a group of... 72075@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Who Discovers and Why 2007-02-26T22:08:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/02/23/f_a_cotton_19302007.php F. A. Cotton died this week, and another gigantic name in chemistry departs. As an inorganic chemist, he was technically outside my field, but no one's really outside the range of influence of someone like that. If you're an organic... 72064@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2007-02-23T11:48:23-05:00