As part of my internship at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I had the opportunity to be Editor of the January 2011 InfoChem (now renamed The Mole) issue. I wrote an editorial on China’s rare earth monopoly, on the importance of natural product synthesis in chemistry, and reported an interview with a chemist at BP.
InfoChem, January 2011
The Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly has marked similarity to humans in its choice of sweeteners, a fact exploited by a team led by Anne Rae at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Queensland to aid the search for new sweeteners as demand for healthier sugar alternatives grows.
Using fruit flies’ sweet tooth – Chemistry World, 2 December 2010
Any increase in Ireland’s corporation tax rate as part of a financial bailout could hurt the country’s rapidly expanding pharmaceutical industry, currently its largest contributor to corporation tax.
Irish drug industry fears bailout tax terms – Chemistry World, 22 November 2010
Akshat Rathi 