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A bloody disgrace — time to change patient safety culture - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
After decades of institutional deceit, deflection, defensiveness and delay, publication of the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry lays bare the failings of the British state and its National Health Service. Now, it is time for justice, accountability and a change in patient safety culture.
Four words robbed me of the life I should have had
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I'd trade every penny of compensation to see my dad once more
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I'd trade every penny of compensation to see my dad once more
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Bite-size science
MOLECULAR MODELS Nature Chemistry (2021)Cite this article Subjects Now, a team led by Bryan Shaw at Baylor University in the USA have made inexpensive bite-size models of proteins that can be visualized using the mouth (Baumer, K. M. et al. Sci. Adv. 7, eabh0691 (2021)). Models of nine globular proteins were prepared in two different sizes (pictured); the smaller set ranged from 2–10 mm and the slightly larger set from 5–20 mm.
Running rings around rings
HOST–GUEST CHEMISTRY Nature Chemistry (2021)Cite this article 292 Accesses 10 Altmetric Metrics details Subjects In the last decade or so, one particular class of hydrocarbon macrocycle has proved to be a popular area of research, namely the cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs). These strained macrocyles are made up of nothing more than para-connected benzene rings bent into a cyclic structure and have been shown to be effective supramolecular hosts for fullerene guests.
Blogroll: Chemistry education
Nature Chemistry | The Sceptical Chymist 23 Jul 2015 | 13:16 BST | Posted by Stuart Cantrill | Category: Blogroll Editor’s note: As we continue to invite bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column, Michael Seery penned the August 2015 column. ———- Embedding scholarship into the teaching of chemistry. With teaching quality high on the agenda, chemistry education research is beginning to emerge as a discipline within some chemistry departments.
The Sceptical Chymist
Nature Chemistry | The Sceptical Chymist 30 Sep 2008 | 06:41 BST | Posted by Stuart Cantrill | Category: Stuart Cantrill It’s getting to be that time of year again… With no odds (or anything else for that matter) posted on ChemBark and Thomson seemingly not making any predictions this year, where do I go for my Nobel Prize gossip?
Promethium puzzles
Stuart Cantrill explains why looking to the heavens for element 61 — named after the Titan who stole fire from the gods — could extend the periodic table. Based on his studies of atomic weights, in 1902 Czech chemist Bohuslav Brauner predicted1 the existence of element 61 — as well as six others that hadn’t been discovered at that point.
Perception of the importance of chemistry research papers and comparison to citation rates
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Rachel Borchardt , Cullen Moran, Stuart Cantrill, Chemjobber, See Arr Oh, Matthew R. Hartings Rachel Borchardt, Cullen Moran, Stuart Cantrill, Chemjobber, See Arr Oh, Matthew R.
Speaking Frankly: Emotional honesty
Frank Leibfarth is a graduate student trying to make his way through the academic maze. Find him contributing to the Sceptical Chymist or continue the conversation on Twitter @Frank_Leibfarth. I started writing this post almost three months ago, after reading a string of emotionally honest and unapologetic pieces from Athene Donald, Rita Tojeiro, Paul Bracher, and others.
Another four bricks in the wall (part II)
Editor’s note: this post written by Shawn Burdette and Brett Thornton is a companion piece to the Commentary article ‘Another four bricks in the wall‘ published in the April 2016 issue of Nature Chemistry. If discovering and naming new elements was not complex enough, the discoverers must also propose a two-letter symbol.
New kids on the p-block
Editor’s note: this is a guest blog post from Philip Ball, Shawn Burdette, Kat Day, Eric Scerri and Brett Thornton about those four new elements and what they might/should/could be called. We’d like you to get involved too, so please do comment! On December 30, 2015, IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) announced the confirmation of the experiments that produced elements 113, 115, 117, and 118, which completes the 7th row of the periodic table.
Nature Chemistry’s 2014 impact factor citation distribution
As pointed out yesterday in a blog post by Stephen Curry (and indeed in at least one previous blog post), some journals publish their citation distributions (this has also been blogged about by Steve Royle too – and probably by many others that I’m not aware of, I’m sure).
Blogroll: Patently inventive
Editor’s note: As we continue to invite bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column, Luke Gamon penned the July 2015 column. Toxicology, the odds of discovering a drug and creativity in design. Spurred on by a tweet from C&EN’s Lisa Jarvis, an active discussion has developed on Twitter and in the blogosphere about the odds of a chemist discovering a drug over an entire career. Some number crunching by Derek Lowe, writing at In The Pipeline, produced a figure around 1%.
Blogroll: The bad and the ugly
Editor’s note: As we continue to invite bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column, Mitchell Antalek penned the February 2015 column. Misinformation abounds, but bloggers are setting the record straight. Science is often misrepresented — in advertising, in popular culture, and even in the press — and sometimes the facts don’t come out right. Ben Goldacre, who writes at Bad Science, describes his frustration regarding misleading press releases about scientific research.
Countdown to the 2014 Chemistry Nobel Prize
Every fall, as announcement of the Nobel Prizes approaches, speculation about that year’s likely winners of the science prizes reaches fever pitch both online and in-person at watercoolers and in laboratory breakrooms. To bring the chemistry community together for prognostication and conversation, Chemical & Engineering News this year hosted its second Google Hangout about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Held on Sept.
The Sceptical Chymist
Nature Chemistry | The Sceptical Chymist 26 Jun 2014 | 19:39 BST | Posted by Stuart Cantrill | Category: Uncategorized Back in April of this year, a manuscript popped up in our submission system from two chemists we know well from Twitter/the chemistry blogosphere — Chemjobber and Alex Goldberg.
How to write an editorial (in tweets)
Nature Chemistry | The Sceptical Chymist 20 Mar 2013 | 23:33 GMT | Posted by Stuart Cantrill | Category: Uncategorized Today we published an Editorial describing how Nature Chemistry (@NatureChemistry) has used Twitter over the past 4 years. The topic of the Editorial was something I had been mulling over for a while, but the format is something that wasn’t planned until I sat down to write it. An Editorial about Twitter?
Molecular Borromean Rings
An object of particular interest in knot theory is known as the Borromean rings (BRs). It occurs in low-dimensional topology and is comprised (Fig. 1A) of three interlocked rings such that scission of any one ring leads to the other two falling apart. Although this symbol can be traced (1) back to early Christian iconography and Norse mythology, its proliferation on crests and statues commissioned by the Borromeo family in 15th-century Tuscany sealed its etymological fate.
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