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Professor Dr. Manfred T. Reetz honored for his work on synthetic organic chemistry

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces that leading German scientist, Professor Dr. Manfred T. Reetz (Emeritus) of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung and Hans Meerwein Research Professor at Philipps-Universität, Marburg, has been awarded the 2011 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry.

The Executive Board of Editors of Elsevier's Tetrahedron Publications selected Professor Reetz for his many outstanding contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, especially for his work on enantioselective catalysis to control stereoselectivity. He has been prominent in the discovery and development of enzyme catalysts for asymmetric reactions. These enzyme catalysts can be developed in the laboratory to suit a specific reaction using a process of directed evolution: repeatedly selecting and growing the host organism which shows the highest yield of the enzyme required.

"Winners of the Tetrahedron prize are leaders in their field. They are the scientists who, through their outstanding creativity in organic chemistry, have moved the field in a new and significant direction. Elsevier is proud to recognize this creativity by the presentation of this prize," Diddel Francissen, Executive Publisher for the Tetrahedron Publications at Elsevier, said of the annual prize.

Elsevier's Tetrahedron Prize consists of a gold medal and a monetary award. Established in 1980 to honor the memory of the founding co-Chairmen of the Tetrahedron Publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor Robert Burns Woodward, it is awarded for creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. Previous recipients include: Albert Eschenmoser, Elias J. Corey, Gilbert Stork, Arthur J. Birch, Michael J.S. Dewar, William S. Johnson, Ryoji Noyori;  K. Barry Sharpless, Alan R. Battersby;  A. Ian Scott, Samuel Danishefsky, Stuart L. Schreiber, David A. Evans, Teruaki Mukaiyama, Henri B. Kagan, Peter B. Dervan, Yoshito Kishi, Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Robert H. Grubbs, Dieter Seebach, Koji Nakanishi, Bernd Giese, Hisashi Yamamoto, J. Fraser Stoddart, Larry E. Overman, Steven V. Ley and Satoshi ?mura.

The Tetrahedron Prize will be presented to Professor Reetz at the Fall 2012 American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia, USA.

For more information on the Tetrahedron Prize please click here.

About Tetrahedron Publications 

Elsevier's Tetrahedron cluster of journals consists of: Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, Tetrahedron Assymetry, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry and Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. All these journals provide an international forum for the publication of research in all areas of (bio)organic and medicinal chemistry.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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The AAAS meeting rounded off with a look at how on Earth we’re going to feed increasing numbers of people who are developing a greater taste for pork, chicken and beef. Currently, livestock takes up 30% of the world’s farmland – both in grazing land and crops for feed – and with global consumption of meat expected to almost double by 2050 a solution is urgently needed. That’s where Mark Post, professor of angiogenesis in tissue engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, steps up. He wants to use tissue cultures to turn a mush of cells into a product that’s indistinguishable from a 16oz steak. However, steaks are complex with their taste and texture depend on a complex mix of a good blood supply and exercise to create firm, lean muscle tissue. As steak is a tough place to start, Post has been trying to make sausages, which he says are ‘barely recognisable as a meat product!’. He’s also looking at creating burgers using his tissue culture technique. He thinks that one of the first burgers he’ll make will cost $200,000 – a bit pricey for all but Bill Gates, but he’s sure that this price tag can be driven down.

Later in the afternoon Bob Root-Bernstein at Michigan State University gave a great presentation on the origins of life. He talked about the idea of molecular complementarity being the chemical starting point that helped put inanimate molecules on the road to forming life. Molecular complementarity is where two distinct chemicals, which could be very different, can reversibly to bind to each other. Root-Bernstein says that when people think of molecular complementarity they often think of large molecules like DNA. He says that when we think about the origins of life we need to think about small molecules coming together; and when they come together they can raise or lower the activation energy of reactions. Glutathione, for instance, can bind to glycine-glycine and protect it from destruction by UV light. These types of reactions could link up to form modules, and he theorises that these modules may have led to certain chemicals being favoured over others in the primordial soup. He points out that hints that this occurred throughout the evolution of life can still be seen today. Insulin, which regulates glucose, has motifs that allow it to bind to the sugar. Insulin can also aggregate into a hexameric barrel, and this could have been the genesis of the first glucose transporter. Even today, similar glucose-binding motifs to those found on insulin can be seen on glucose transporters and receptors. Clearly there’s lots of ifs and maybes here, but it’s a fascinating theory nonetheless.

Root-Bernstein says that he now hopes to search for chemical modules by re-running the Miller-Urey experiments, but increasing their complexity and bringing analytical tools to bear on the products that just weren’t available 60 years ago.

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Chemistry certainly has its share of happy accidents. Perkin tried for quinine but got a dye (and his fortune); while Wilbrand tried for a dye and ended up with high explosive… TNT. Simon Cotton tells the story in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

                  

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A couple weeks ago, we reported on Washington State University chemistry professor Aurora Clark, who is applying the Google PageRank concept to water molecules to determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions “without the expense, logistics and occasional danger of lab experiments.”

When asked about the whole thing, Google Fellow Amit Singhal told WebProNews, “Our goal in search is to help people expand their knowledge of the world, and we’re delighted to see that our PageRank algorithm is being used to do just that with this innovative and efficient molecular research method.”

As explained in the original announcement about this initiative:

In living things, water can perform key functions like helping proteins fold or organizing itself around the things it dissolves so molecules stay apart in a fluid state. But the processes are dazzlingly complex, changing in fractions of a second and in myriad possible forms.

Much like the trillion-plus Web domains on the Internet.

Google’s PageRank software, developed by its founders at Stanford University, uses an algorithm—a set of mathematical formulas—to measure and prioritize the relevance of various Web pages to a user’s search. Clark and her colleagues realized that the interactions between molecules are a lot like links between Web pages. Some links between some molecules will be stronger and more likely than others.

In the video above, Clark shares a bit about the inspiration and process in which PageRank is being applied to chemistry.

Pretty interesting. What do you think?

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Is youth waste on the young… scientists? That’s the provocative question Catherine Beaudry from the Ecole Poloytechnique de Montréal, Canada, posed on Saturday morning on day three of the AAAS.

The Vancouver Convention Centre, where the AAAS is taking place, plays host to the digital orca, made of glowing plastic cubes

She ran us through her work looking at the contributions Canadian scientists make in nanotechnology and biotechnology throughout their careers and if they’re at their most productive when they’re young. Or do they mature like a fine wine to produce their best work? She notes that since the turn of the 19th century, the age of Nobel laureates has been going up at a rate of 1.6 years per decade. Is this an indicator that scientists are doing their best work later? Obviously, it’s difficult to control for all the different factors that can affect a researcher’s output over the course of their career, such as their position in the community, the grants they manage to secure and the network they build up around them. But she says that the work of younger scientists has more impact on their field but older researchers do tend to be more productive. She does note a more worrying trend though. In the US, the age at which a researcher secures their first National Institutes of Health grant where they are the principal investigator has gone up from 34 in the 1970s to 42 in 2004. If young scientists make the most important breakthroughs in their field, choking off the number in charge of their own projects can only be bad for science as a whole.

Next up, peer review was under the microscope. Is it still relevant in today’s world of electronic communications, pre-prints and open source critiques? The panel certainly thought so. Linda Miller, who has been an editor at both Science and Nature, and is now at the New York University Langone Medical Center, says that the vast majority of authors still think the traditional peer review process improves their work. But she does note that a current of change of sweeping the peer review world. Researchers are less happy with the process going on behind closed doors, reflecting a trend in wider society for greater transparency in decision making. Questions were asked as to whether open peer review – where manuscripts are posted online and reviewers names are comments are known to all – could be the next big thing. There’s certainly advantages, as everything is open and above board, but how could a younger researcher criticise a more established one without damaging their career? The panel feared that it could create a new system of patronage. Miller says that whatever happens, when change comes it could be ‘cataclysmic’. ‘Remember, eight year olds today will become the CEOs of tomorrow,’ she says.

After lunch, Tessa Holyoake, at the University of Glasgow, UK, had an talk on autophagy – the process of breaking down and recycling subcellular components – as a new drug target. The university is now involved in a clinical trial looking at whether an inhibitor of autophagy – the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine – can work synergistically with conventional therapies for chronic myeloid leukaemia. The cell studies look good and the group are putting together more powerful autophagy inhibitors that they hope will be effective in treating cancer.

The day rounded off with a fascinating look at the nanomaterial of the future – nanocellulose. These fibres can be extracted from cellulose and they are as strong as Kevlar and have some interesting properties that mean they could be used in all sorts of applications from batteries, to bioplastics and electronics. And the big advantage of nanocellulose is its abundance. Theodore Wegner, from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, says that it should be possible to cheaply extract millions of tons of the nanomaterial from wood. He adds that another advantage of nanocellulose is that it doesn’t appear to have any of the toxicity issues that dog other nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes.

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College of Chemistry receives $3.5 million gift from Dow to develop sustainable chemistry education

February 24, 2012

The College of Chemistry will rebuild the college’s aging undergraduate teaching labs and design a new curriculum based on the principles of sustainability and green chemistry, with the support of a $3.5 million gift from The Dow Chemical Company Foundation.

“I am very grateful for the support we have received from Dow,” says College of Chemistry Dean Richard A. Mathies. “This very generous gift from the Dow Foundation will transform chemical sciences instruction for the 21st Century. These funds will enable us to completely renew our undergraduate instructional laboratories and our curriculum with a sharp focus on sustainable green chemical practices. The impact of this gift is huge because these courses serve thousands of students every year.”

Dow Chemical Company and College of Chemistry leaders pose at the University House. (Rear) Tony Kingsbury, Dow Executive-in-Residence, Haas School of Business; Dean Richard A. Mathies; Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. (Front) Neil Hawkins, Dow VP for Sustainability; CBE Chair Doug Clark; David Kepler, Dow Executive VP for Business Services, Chief Sustainability Officer; Robert Miller, President and Executive Director, Dow Chemical Company Foundation.

“We are delighted to partner with Berkeley and the College of Chemistry,” said Andrew Liveris, Dow Chairman and CEO. “Together we will facilitate enhancements to both the curriculum and the learning environment that will encourage the next generation of students to adopt the principles of sustainable chemistry from their first day in the lab and the classroom.”

Guests from Dow and UC Berkeley enjoy a warm early spring day at the University House.

David Kepler, Executive Vice President for Business Services and Chief Sustainability Officer at Dow, helped coordinate the gift. Says Kepler, a 1975 chemical engineering alumnus, “As a leading global chemistry company committed to sustainability, Dow sees the need to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers beyond traditional chemistry into the discipline of sustainable chemistry.”

Both the College of Chemistry and Dow are committed to teaching chemists to create chemicals and processes that reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous substances and minimize their environmental impacts. These sustainable practices are designed to apply to the complete life cycle of chemical products, including their design, manufacture, use and disposal.

To implement this new vision, funds from the Dow gift will transform the curriculum in following three ways:

The teaching labs will be renovated to reduce the impact of their use through sustainable practices. Lab equipment, hoods and lighting will be replaced to bring it up to the latest efficiency standards. The lab curriculum will be completely revised to incorporate sustainability into every experiment. The curriculum will be based on independent teaching modules that will engage the students by having them choose their experimental topics. A chemical analysis instrumentation facility will be built to give the thousands of students in the introductory courses the opportunity to work with modern instrumentation.

Berkeley CBE alum David Kepler, Dow’s Executive VP for Business Services and Chief Sustainability Officer, assists Dean Richard A. Mathies in removing a wall in preparation for the rebuilding of the college teaching labs.

Each year more than 2,300 Berkeley undergraduates in chemistry, physical sciences, biological sciences, engineering and other majors take introductory chemistry classes. “Our undergrad and grad students will go on to pursue careers in many fields,” says Dean Mathies. “The impact of our new sustainability curriculum will be amplified as our students take jobs in academia and begin to teach their own courses. Meanwhile our students in government and industry will spread sustainable practices as their careers develop.”

Adds Kepler, “We are excited to partner with the College of Chemistry to bring enhancements to both the curriculum and the learning environment that will encourage students to adopt the principles of sustainable chemistry from their first day in the lab and the classroom.”

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Life may have gotten its start inland, inside ponds of volcanic condensate, not in the oceans.

Modern life is more chemically compatible with conditions in venting geothermal fields, such as Yellowstone National Park, than in the ocean, even a primitive ocean, new analysis shows. The finding challenges a widely accepted theory that modern life began in a marine environment.

The study, led by biophysicist Armen Mulkidjanian with Osnabruck University in Germany, suggests life evolved inside cooled inland ponds formed from condensation from volcanic activity deep inside the Earth. Life later would have spread into the oceans.

Stoking scientists’ interest in the chemical origins of life is a long-standing puzzle about why it has such high amounts of potassium, relative to the amounts of sodium.

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“The basic question is whether the observed high potassium-sodium ratio reflect the historical environment in which life originated or underwent early evolution, or instead reflects some underlying chemical necessity, such as better functioning of certain cellular components, such as RNA or protein enzymes in a high potassium environment,” Harvard Medical School biologist Jack Szostak wrote in an email to Discovery News.

The new research provides a possible explanation for the potassium-sodium mismatch. Scientists say the composition of inorganic ions in all modern cells matches the chemistry of geothermal vapor condensate -- not the ocean.

If this vapor condensed into ponds filled with carbon, nitrogen, phosphate and other building blocks for life, the environment would have been a natural starting point for cells to evolve biochemical processes, the scientists say.

In contrast, water of the early oceans should have contained 40 times more sodium than potassium, among other conditions not conducive to the origin of the first cells, Mulkidjanian wrote in an email to Discovery News.

“We have proposed that protocells evolved in habitats with a high potassium-sodium ratio and relatively high concentrations of zinc, manganese and phosphorous compounds,” he said.

WIDE ANGLE: Life’s Origins

To suggest otherwise, he added, means that the first cells already had sophisticated membranes as well as the enzymes to transport and/or block ions.

“We believe that it is too much of a stretch,” Mulkidjanian wrote. “The scenario that we suggest is physically and geochemically plausible.”

There are other factors favoring ponds for life’s start as well, such as lower salt concentrations.

“The accumulation of organic compounds in endorheic (free-standing) ponds is also easier to imagine than in the ocean, and geothermally active areas provide numerous advantages,” Szostak said.

Mulkidjanian’s research was published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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A WSU chemistry professor is using Google instead of traditional lab experiments to analyze bonding strengths within millions of molecules.

Aurora Clark, an associate professor of chemistry, is using MoleculaRnetwork, the adapted form of Google’s algorithm PageRank, to help determine the shape and chemical reaction of molecules without the high costs of lab experiments. 

“Each molecule is like a Web page,” Clark said, “with the bonds between the atoms like hyperlinks.”

The same mathematical formulas and concepts that are used to distinguish the connectedness of certain Web pages can be used to distinguish the connectedness and interactions between
molecules, she said.

The idea came from Barbara Mooney, a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Arizona, who combined the world of computer science and chemistry, something that typically isn’t done, Clark said.  

The software took about a year to write and create. Clark is working with colleagues at the University of Arizona as well as undergraduate and graduate students at the WSU campus.

Dan Sullivan, a second-year graduate student studying physical chemistry, is working with Clark on her research project. He said he finds the computer software easy to use.  

“It’s a very simple way to look at data,” he said. “Within two clicks of a mouse you have an entire range of data.”

Before, looking at the bonds within the molecules had to be done by using just the naked eye, Clark said. A process that used to take days or weeks to analyze can now be done in a thirty minute time frame.

Furthermore, the analysis using the MoleculaRnetwork is more precise, she said. Applying the PageRank algorithms allows patterns to be spotted that would otherwise go unnoticed. The new analysis system is also much safer and much more cost effective. 

“This is the ultimate in green chemistry,” Clark said. “We don’t need to worry about safety issues like [typical] lab experiments do. Our biggest concern is getting Carpal tunnel syndrome.”  

There are two ultimate goals Clark hopes to gain from this project, she said. The first to give a large scale understanding of water and the importance of its use. Second, she said she hopes to understand things on a molecular level as well.

By dissolving heavy ions of metal into water, and using the software to analyze the data, it is easy to see how the metals react with the structures of the water bonds, she said. 

Although Clark is using it right now to focus on water molecules, she said the software can be used for further advancements in the scientific world, including new drug designs, researching the malignant folding of proteins that cause certain diseases and analyzing radioactive pollutants.

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Peters Township High School won't get an organic chemistry class anytime soon, despite pleas to the school board from a group of students.

This week the board heard from a group of science students, who said they will be at "a serious disadvantage" among their peers in college, most of whom will have already taken the class.

"This class is not just a want, it's a need," said student Carla Hoge, who said offering an organic chemistry class would help level the playing field for Peters' graduates.

Chase Maszle said a group of 130 students signed a petition expressing interest in taking the class, which could join other science electives that are currently offered, such as Advanced Placement chemistry, Honors chemistry, and molecular gastronomy.

Other local districts, including Canon McMillan, Bethel Park, North Allegheny, Mt. Lebanon, and McKeesport, offer the class, he said.

Organic chemistry is a major component for most science degrees, Chase said, and the lack of a class has proved to be "crippling" to Peters' graduates, because students who test high enough on Advanced Placement exams are able to skip some college-level science classes only to be faced with the unfamiliar organic chemistry.

Superintendent Nina Zetty said the district has explored offering the class during the past year, but said the staffing and curriculum costs -- which could top $100,000 -- are too high for the district to bear right now.

The district is considering a 3-mill property tax increase, hoping to shave a projected $1.7 million deficit. Board members voted Tuesday to increase retirement incentives for teachers, making them eligible for retirement with fewer years of service and lower age limits.

"As of now, organic chemistry is not on the schedule for next year," said Ms. Zetty, who said the school's four chemistry teachers are already fully booked.

The student group also attended a meeting of the district's education committee earlier this month, and said they were disappointed that the board took no action.

They questioned whether some classes, such as molecular gastronomy [the science of cooking] -- which draws fewer than 10 students per semester -- could be offered half a year, with organic chemistry offered during the other half.

The organic chemistry class would be of interest to far more students, they said.

"These aren't just five or six students," said Ryan Duane. "There are 130 students who really would benefit from this class."

Ms. Zetty said the district is considering several other options, such as transporting students to other schools for the class, or offering it through dual-enrollment with local colleges.

"We are already looking into alternatives," Ms. Zetty said.

Chase and Carla said the student group would continue to pursue its goal without being discouraged. Both are student council officers who agreed to speak publicly about the issue on behalf of their classmates. They said high school teachers and administrators are supporting their request.

Janice Crompton: jcrompton@post-gazette.com or 412-851-1867.

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The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry will rebuild the college’s aging undergraduate teaching labs and design a new curriculum based on the principles of sustainability and green chemistry with the support of a $3.5 million gift from The Dow Chemical Company Foundation.

“I am very grateful for the support we have received from Dow,” says College of Chemistry Dean Richard A. Mathies. “This very generous and ground-breaking gift from the Dow Foundation will transform chemical sciences instruction for the 21st Century. These funds will enable us to completely renew our undergraduate instructional laboratories and our curriculum with a sharp focus on sustainable green chemical practices. The impact of this gift is huge because these courses serve thousands of students every year. Furthermore, Berkeley is now leading the way in making sustainable green chemical practices a core concept in our entire profession.”

David Kepler, Dow Executive Vice President for Business Services, Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Information Officer, and a 1975 UC Berkeley chemical engineering graduate, helped coordinate the gift. Says Kepler, “As a leading global chemistry company committed to sustainability, Dow sees the need to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers beyond traditional chemistry into the discipline of sustainable chemistry.”

Sustainable chemistry uses the principles of green chemistry in the design of products and processes which reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances while addressing environmental impact. Sustainable chemistry is applied across the life cycle of a chemical product, including its design, manufacture and use. Sustainable chemistry is a highly effective and innovative scientific approach to addressing solutions to real-world environmental and social situations.

To implement this new vision, funds from the Dow gift will transform the curriculum in three ways:

First, the teaching labs will be renovated to reduce the impact of their use through sustainable practices. Lab equipment, hoods and lighting will be replaced to bring it up to the latest efficiency standards.

Second, the lab curriculum will be completely revised to incorporate sustainability into every experiment. The curriculum will be based on independent teaching modules that will engage the students by having them choose their experimental topics.

Third, a chemical analysis instrumentation facility will be built to give the thousands of students in the introductory courses the opportunity to work with modern instrumentation.

Each year more than 2,300 Berkeley undergrads in chemistry, physical sciences, biological sciences, engineering and other majors take introductory chemistry classes. “Our undergrad and grad students will go on to pursue careers in many fields,” says Dean Mathies. “The impact of our new sustainability curriculum will be amplified as our students take jobs in academia and begin to teach their own courses. Meanwhile our students in government and industry will spread sustainable practices as their careers develop.”

Adds Kepler, “We are excited to partner with the College of Chemistry to bring enhancements to both the curriculum and the learning environment that will encourage students to adopt the principles of sustainable chemistry from their first day in the lab and the classroom.”

About the College of Chemistry

The College of Chemistry was founded in 1872 as a unit within the University of California, Berkeley. It continues to provide its top-ranked faculty and students with opportunities to work at the frontiers of knowledge. The college prides itself on a balanced approach to science, emphasizing both fundamental and applied studies.

The college produces more graduates trained in the chemical sciences than any other U.S. university. About 200 students earn undergraduate degrees each year in chemistry, chemical biology and chemical engineering. The college also awards about 30 masters degrees and 120 doctoral degrees each year in chemistry and chemical engineering.

In the most recent National Research Council review, the college’s Department of Chemistry was ranked first in the nation, while the college’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was ranked third. College faculty and alumni have won 13 Nobel Prizes in chemistry.

About The Dow Chemical Company

Dow combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2011, Dow had annual sales of $60 billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. The Company’s more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 197 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at http://www.dow.com.

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11-02-2012 19:41 Describe the effect of a catalyst on a chemical reaction. A catalyst increases the rate of a chemical reaction by providing an alternate reaction pathway with a lower activation energy. It is NOT used up in the reaction -- so you can wash it and reuse it! Activation energy is the minimum energy required for a reaction to occur. The cat harmed at the end was in fact plastic -- but you need to look closely.

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As a society that demands honesty and the inside scoop from athletes, we question their team loyalty when they are blatantly honest about the team or their teammates.

On the flipside of that, we become restless when we hear the same “It was a great team effort” line from the exact same athlete.

That hasn’t been the case with Joe Dykstra this season.

Twice this year, Dykstra, head coach of the UNT swimming and diving team, has told me flat out that the Mean Green’s opponent will have the upper hand in a meet. The first time was against No. 6 ranked Texas A&M, a 186-105 loss.

The second time was two days before the Sun Belt Championships in Rockwall. Dykstra told me it was Denver’s meet to lose. That honesty may drive some people crazy.

But Dykstra doesn’t doubt his team at all. Even with what he calls the best team he’s ever had, pure talent isn’t the reason he thinks of his team so highly.

During his tenure at UNT, this team is his greatest because of its camaraderie. Of course, players like freshman Krista Rossum have helped, but team chemistry was his top reason.

It’s odd to have team chemistry in swimming, right? How can a sport with no ball have chemistry? Truth is, everyone has dealt with some sort of issue where good or bad chemistry has affected the outcome.

Chemistry isn’t just in sports. Everyone’s dealt with the kid who contributes absolutely nothing to a group project, thus dragging the group’s grade down.

However, it’s always very easy to tell when a team has really good chemistry.

What makes the swimming team’s chemistry more impressive is the number of new faces and underclassmen on the team. Of the 35 members, 21 are considered underclassmen, 14 of them freshmen. To be able to mesh so quickly with one another and to not have any senior-freshmen confrontations about team dominance is a moral victory in itself.

Thus far, Dykstra has been right. After the first day of championship action, the Mean Green is up on Denver 110-101 and sits at first place. The team also set two school records in the 800-free and 3-meter dive.

For at least one day, UNT’s chemistry is faring better than the team whose meet it was to lose. The Mean Green is outperforming expectations in Rockwall, and there’s no reason to think it won’t come out of the weekend as the SBC Champions.

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Girls Class 4A state basketball teams

Coral Springs Charter (23-6)
Mascot: Panthers
Coach: Fitzroy Anthony (second year)
Stat leaders
Points: Aisha Edwards 19.3; Celia Wojcik 11.8
Rebounds: Wojcik 10.6; Morgan Smellie 4.8
Assists: Emile Williams 3.3, Edwards/Smellie 2.7
Playoff road

d. Cardinal Gibbons 32-22 in district final
d. Miami Jackson 66-15 in regional quarters
d. Cardinal Gibbons 50-36 in regional semis
d. Gulliver Prep 59-44 in regional final
Dunbar (27-1)
Mascot: Tigers
Coach: Dwayne Donnell (12th year)
Stat leaders

Points: Kiara Desamours 14.7; Keri Jewett 12.6
Rebounds: Desamours 9.3; Johnetta Williams 4.9
Assists: Kadiedra Burger 3.3; Jewett 3.1
Playoff road

d. Bishop Verot 54-51 in district final
d. Cardinal Newman 71-44 in regional quarters
d. Lincoln Park 54-46 in regional semis
d. Tampa Catholic 63-58 (OT) in regional final

Out of reach

No Lee County high school girls basketball team has ever won a state championship. Here?s how the six local teams to reach the title game fared.
1984: 3A final ? Pompano Beach Ely 62, Fort Myers 49
1989: A final ? Ponce de Leon 81, Fort Myers Christian 52
1995: 5A final ? Gulfport Boca Ciega 46, Mariner 43
2002: 2A final ? Miami Monsignor Pace 61, Bishop Verot 51
2007: 4A final ? Jensen Beach 47, Dunbar 33
2008: 3A final ? Miramar Parkway 45, Dunbar 43

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Chemistry sparks Dunbar's success

The low-key, thoughtful, Harvard-educated former Chicago Bears offensive lineman.

The street-wise, ahem, opinionated hot dog stand owner and high school dropout.

Who would have imagined the pairing of Dan Jiggetts and Mike North could work at any profession, much less at a start-up all-sports talk radio station?

The folks who behind the upstart WSCR, the all-sports talker that began in January 1992, did.

“My reaction was, I'm with a former Bear, a guy I respect, a guy I've watched play and has been on TV — Dan Jiggetts ... this can't be bad,” recalled North.

“I remember they told us about the pairing and so we went over to Mike's restaurant and chatted a little bit,” Jiggetts said. “Our chemistry was there from the moment we sat down and started firing at each other.”

And before you could say Ditka, The Score had the makings of a hit on its hands — a Monster hit, if you will, in the North-Jiggetts pairing, which lasted eight years.

“Three days in I remember sitting with (executive VP) Seth Mason saying this show has it,” former Score programming director Ron Gleason told Daniel Dorfman, who wrote an extensive history on the station for its website.

Gleason wasn't the only one feeling good about the combo.

“After about a week or two I honestly felt we had something pretty good, and as time went by that was proved to be true,” Jiggetts said.

“I think it worked because most people, just at the sight of us and with the way stereotypes are in this country, most people would say, ‘Well, who is the Harvard graduated kid?'” North said. “It worked because we crossed racial lines, we were comfortable talking about things. We had the street kid in me, the fan in me, and we had the actual professional player in Dan.

“Plus, we were in a happy place. There was some contentiousness as far as interviews with guests were concerned at times, but with the listeners and callers, we always respected them — we knew where our bread was buttered.”

Out of necessity, Jiggetts was the main voice of calmness during their years together.

“If you had two people like Mike on the air at the same time ... I don't think it would last a half-hour,” he said with a laugh. “But I think from a personality standpoint it was a great match because I was kind of the guy who to go ‘All right, let's get back to reality,' and Mike would go off on another tangent.”

Since the band broke up in 1999, North and Jiggetts have continued to work together on other ventures ranging from print to television.

“I can't speak for Dan, but I think we're closer now,” North said. “Back then, it was survival. We wanted to succeed as partners but we also knew we had to be good as individuals. We were so focused on doing a good job that we never really had the friendship I thought we could have. Since then it's just grown.”

Added Jiggetts: “It was always fun for us. The chemistry was something I think was palpable to people, and I think they rather enjoyed it.”

Fans of North and Jiggetts will get to see that chemistry in person again at the “Monsters 20th Anniversary Event” on March 8 at Arlington Park. Buffet tickets ($50) are available at arlingtonpark.com.

“I hadn't heard what the station (WSCR) was doing to celebrate and I said, ‘You know what? We have to do something,'” North said. “This is 20 years. We've known each other for 20 years. We've worked together on and off for 20 years ... people were asking me about it. So I decided to put something together.”

But ...

“I didn't know it was like putting a wedding together. I knew it would be a chore, but it's turned out to be a great chore,” he said. “My wife Be-Be has been unbelievable and I've had great partners in the Daily Herald and Arlington Park.

“I just decided, ‘Let's have a celebration. One night only with the Monsters.'”

Knowing North, nothing will be off limits at the Monsters celebration — and that includes the good or bad since his Score days.

“Everybody's got a Vietnam,” he said with a laugh. “My winning percentage is about 18-4. I've had mostly successes. I've had a couple of negatives — there's no question — and some of those I brought on myself.”

But he wouldn't change a thing.

“(In the early days at The Score) I remember telling Dan McNeill, ‘Let's enjoy this while we can' because it's going to go fast. And you know what? It went fast. It's been 20 years. But I'll tell you this: I loved every single minute. And I still do.”

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The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. Aurora Clark, an associate professor of chemistry at Washington State University, has adapted Google's PageRank software to create moleculaRnetworks, which scientists can use to determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions without the expense, logistics and occasional danger of lab experiments.

"What's most cool about this work is we can take technology from a totally separate realm of science, computer science, and apply it to understanding our natural world," says Clark.

Clark and colleagues from the University of Arizona discuss the software in a recent online article in The Journal of Computational Chemistry. Their work is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences program.

The software focuses on hydrogen bonds in water, earth's most abundant solvent and a major player in most every biological process. "From a biological or chemical standpoint, water is where it's at," says Clark.

In living things, water can perform key functions like helping proteins fold or organizing itself around the things it dissolves so molecules stay apart in a fluid state. But the processes are dazzlingly complex, changing in fractions of a second and in myriad possible forms.

Much like the trillion-plus Web domains on the Internet.

Google's PageRank software, developed by its founders at Stanford University, uses an algorithm-a set of mathematical formulas-to measure and prioritize the relevance of various Web pages to a user's search.

Clark and her colleagues realized that the interactions between molecules are a lot like links between Web pages. Some links between some molecules will be stronger and more likely than others.

"So the same algorithm that is used to understand how Web pages are connected can be used to understand how molecules interact," says Clark.

The PageRank algorithm is particularly efficient because it can look at a massive amount of the Web at once. Similarly, it can quickly characterize the interactions of millions of molecules and help researchers predict how various chemicals will react with one another.

Ultimately, researchers can use the software to design drugs, investigate the roles of misfolded proteins in disease and analyze radioactive pollutants, Clark says.

"Computational chemistry is becoming the third leg in the stool of chemistry," the other two being experimental and analytical chemistry, says Clark. "You can call it the ultimate green chemistry. We don't produce any waste. No one gets exposed to anything harmful."

Clark, who uses Pacific Northwest National Laboratories supercomputers and a computer cluster on WSU's Pullman campus, specializes in the remediation and separation of radioactive materials. With computational chemistry and her Google-based software, she says, she "can learn about all those really nasty things without ever touching them."

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Spending nearly 10 days in the same hotels, on the same charter flights and facing the same opponents can either cause a losing team to come together or drift further apart. And for the Washington Wizards, the season’s longest — to this point — road trip through Detroit, Portland, Los Angeles, Utah and Phoenix went a long way toward helping the players establish more camaraderie as they shared meals, went to the movies and got more familiar with one another on a personal level.

“We’re most definitely better, chemistry-wise, being around each other off the court and playing hard for each other on the court,” Rashard Lewis said after the Wizards (7-25) finished 2-3 on the trip and doubled the number of road wins they had before leaving on Feb. 11. “It helps you come together on the court and play for each other instead of being selfish.”

The results were evident through the first two victories and even during some competitive stretches against the Clippers and the Suns. But the final dud of a second half in Phoenix proved that off-the-court chemistry doesn’t always translate to on-the-court success. The Suns buried the Wizards during a 31-6 run to close the third period, in an eight-minute stretch that Coach Randy Wittman described as “the most selfish spree of basketball since I’ve taken over.”

The Wizards had established a reputation as a one-on-one offensive team this season under former coach Flip Saunders, but Wittman had worked hard to make sure that his players trusted each other and relied on ball movement to get better, more efficient shots. The collapse during the 104-88 loss to Phoenix was more disturbing, because the Wizards had started the third period getting seven points by sharing the ball.

John Wall fed Nick Young for a jumper, then drove inside, drew Steve Nash and Jared Dudley, and fed Trevor Booker for vicious dunk in the lane. Booker then converted a three-point play that gave the Wizards a 55-54 lead with 8 minutes 13 seconds remaining in the period.

What followed was an incredible meltdown on both ends of the floor, a rapid descent that turned a close game into a laugher in a matter of minutes.

Wittman didn’t have to think too hard about what happened. “Selfish is what happened,” Wittman said. “We became selfish. We didn’t share the ball and tried to do everything one on one, and a good team like Phoenix is going to take that away from you. That’s all it was.”

The Wizards have had their share of second-half breakdowns, which is one of the reasons they have recorded 17 double-digit losses — second only to Charlotte — through the first half of this season. They will host Sacramento on Wednesday in the final game before the all-star break, which will probably feel like another road game considering how much the team has moved around.

Unlike last season, the Wizards are only slightly better at Verizon Center than they are away from home. They would like to head into the break on a positive note after failing to compete in Utah, where they trailed by 28 in the third quarter, and only showing up for 28 minutes in Phoenix, where they trailed by 26 in the fourth quarter. The Wizards lost each of the past three games by at least 14 points.

“It’s very disappointing,” Young said. “We’ve seen how good we can be. We could’ve made it a more positive road trip at 3-2 but to get blown out like that, it’s tough. But we’ve got to bounce back, look forward to Wednesday.”

The Wizards should also try to avoid having the kind of lengthy letdowns that have derailed them in recent losses to Houston and Miami, as they simply gave up or failed to play as a team.

As Nash and the Suns pounded them with crisp ball movement in the second half, the Wizards tried to respond with quick jumpers. Lewis was sitting next to Maurice Evans as the Suns scored 16 consecutive points, with Nash ending the run with a difficult, hanging jumper over Wall to put his team ahead, 70-55.

Evans mentioned that the game was getting out of control and Lewis looked up, stunned at how the team could go from leading to trailing by so much so quickly.

“It flashed before my eyes. It happened so fast. I couldn’t believe it,” Lewis said. “It’s disappointing, because we wanted to win this one. We felt it would’ve been a successful trip even though we didn’t play well in Utah. I still think we did a lot of positive things.”

After the loss to Phoenix, Jordan Crawford didn’t dispute Wittman’s notion that the team played selfishly.

“Yeah, probably. When you get down, everybody try to be the hero. I think that cost us,” said Crawford, who attempted a pull-up three-pointer on a three-on-two fast break during the run. He added that the Wizards did make some positive strides on the trip. “We’ve shown that even on the road, we can beat good teams. Good teams do it every night. I think we went out and played hard. We just had some mental lapses.”

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GBI Research's report, "Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market to 2017 - Clinical Chemistry Tests to be the Major Revenue Generator", provides key data, information and analysis on the global rapid tests and point of care (POC) market. The report provides information on the market landscape, the competitive landscape and market trend information on three rapid tests and POC market categories: clinical chemistry rapid tests and POC, immunochemistry rapid tests, and hematology rapid tests. The report provides comprehensive information on the key trends affecting these categories and key analytical content on the market's dynamics. The report also provides profiles of the major companies operating in the rapid tests and POC market and a detailed analysis of the pipeline products in each category. Furthermore, the report reviews the details of important merger and acquisition deals that have taken place in the rapid tests and POC market over the past four years. The report is compiled using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research, and in-house analysis by GBI Research's team of industry experts.

Scope

- Key geographies covered include the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, India, Australia and Brazil.

- The market size of three rapid tests and POC market categories - clinical chemistry rapid tests and POC, immunochemistry rapid tests, and hematology rapid tests.

- Annualized market revenue data from 2003 to 2010, forecast forward for 7 years to 2017.

- Qualitative analysis of key market trends, market drivers and restraints of each category within the rapid tests and POC market.

- The report also covers information on the leading players in the market and the leading technologies.

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1 Table of Contents1 Table of Contents 31.1 List of Tables 61.2 List of Figures 72 Introduction 82.1 GBI Research Guidance 93 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Market Characterization 103.1 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 103.2 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 113.3 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Key Market Trends 123.3.1 Decentralization of Laboratories is a Growing Trend Across the World 123.3.2 Integration of POC Devices with Hospital Information Systems is a Growing Trend 123.4 Significant Consolidation in Recent Years to Reshape the Competitive Landscape of the Industry 133.4.1 Increased Demand for Rapid Tests and POC Testing in Emerging Countries Will Drive the Growth of the Market in the Near Future 133.5 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care, Market Dynamics 143.5.1 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care, Market Drivers 143.5.2 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care, Market Restraints 164 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Market Category Analysis and Forecasts 184.1 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC 184.1.1 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 184.1.2 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue Forecasts ($m), 2010 - 2017 204.2 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market - Market Dynamics 214.2.1 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market - Market Drivers 214.2.2 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market - Market Restraints 224.3 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market 234.3.1 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 234.3.2 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue Forecasts ($m), 2010 - 2017 244.4 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market - Market Dynamics 254.4.1 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market - Market Drivers 254.4.2 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market - Market Restraints 264.5 Hematology Rapid Tests Market 264.5.1 Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 274.5.2 Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue Forecasts ($m), 2010 - 2017 284.6 Hematology Rapid Tests Market - Market Dynamics 294.6.1 Hematology Rapid Tests Market - Market Drivers 294.6.2 Hematology Rapid Tests Market - Market Restraints 305 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Country Analysis and Forecasts 315.1 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Cross - Country Analysis 315.2 Revenue Forecasts, by Country, 2003 - 2017 335.2.1 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 335.2.2 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 345.2.3 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 355.2.4 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 365.2.5 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the UK, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 375.2.6 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the UK, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 385.2.7 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Germany, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 395.2.8 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Germany, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 405.2.9 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 415.2.10 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 425.2.11 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 435.2.12 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 445.2.13 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 455.2.14 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 465.2.15 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 475.2.16 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 485.2.17 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 495.2.18 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 505.2.19 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 515.2.20 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 525.2.21 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 535.2.22 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia
, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 545.2.23 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 555.2.24 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 566 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Key Market Participants 576.1 F. Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd. 576.1.1 Business Overview 576.1.2 Marketed Products 576.2 Abbott Laboratories 576.2.1 Business Overview 576.2.2 Marketed products 586.3 Siemens Healthcare (Subsidiary of Siemens AG) 586.3.1 Business Overview 586.3.2 Marketed Products 586.4 Beckman Coulter, Inc. (Subsidiary of Danaher Corporation) 596.4.1 Business Overview 596.4.2 Marketed Products: 596.5 bioMerieux S.A. (Subsidiary of Merieux Alliance Group) 606.5.1 Business Overview 606.5.2 Marketed products 606.6 DiaSorin S.p.A 606.6.1 Business Overview 606.6.2 Marketed Products: 617 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Product Pipeline Analysis 627.1 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Pipeline Product Summary 627.2 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - List of Pipeline Products 647.3 Rapid Tests and Point of Care - Profiles of Key Pipeline Products 667.3.1 ImmProCon Technology 667.3.2 RAPIDPoint 500 System - Lactate Assay 667.3.3 Sali - Chek Reader 667.3.4 Point Of Care Diagnostic Device 677.3.5 ACE Alera Clinical Chemistry System - Direct A1c Assay 677.3.6 Advia 120 Hematology System - IRF Test 677.3.7 Advia 2120 Hematology System - MPC Test 687.3.8 AIA - 600 II - D - dimer Test 688 Global Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Consolidation Landscape 698.1 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Key Deals 2011 698.1.1 Sony Corporation of America Acquires Micronics 698.1.2 Roche Completes Acquisition of MTM Laboratories 698.1.3 Quest Diagnostics Completes Acquisition of Athena Diagnostics 698.1.4 Danaher Completes Acquisition of Beckman Coulter 708.2 Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market - Key Deals, 2007 - 2010 708.2.1 Merck Completes Acquisition of Millipore 708.2.2 Inverness Medical Innovations Acquires 78.13% Stake in Standard Diagnostics 718.2.3 Inverness Medical Innovations Completes Acquisition of Concateno from Marwyn 718.2.4 bioMerieux Acquires AviaraDx 718.2.5 Siemens Medical Acquires Dade Behring 718.2.6 Roche Acquires Ventana Medical Systems 728.2.7 Bio - Rad Laboratories Acquires Diamed 729 Appendix 739.1 Definitions 739.1.1 Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests & POC 739.1.2 Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market 739.1.3 Haematology Rapid Tests Market 739.2 Acronyms 739.3 Research Methodology 749.3.1 Secondary Research 749.3.2 Primary Research 749.3.3 Models 759.3.4 Forecasts 759.3.5 Expert Panels 759.4 Contact Us 759.5 Disclaimer 769.6 Sources 76

1.1 List of Tables

Table 1: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 10Table 2: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 11Table 3: Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 19Table 4: Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 20Table 5: Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 23Table 6: Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 24Table 7: Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 27Table 8: Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 28Table 9: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Cross Country Analysis, CAGR (%), 2003 - 2017 31Table 10: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 33Table 11: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 34Table 12: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 35Table 13: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 36Table 14: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the UK, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 37Table 15: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the UK, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 38Table 16: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Germany, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 39Table 17: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the Germany, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 40Table 18: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 41Table 19: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 42Table 20: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 43Table 21: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 44Table 22: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 45Table 23: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 46Table 24: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 47Table 25: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 48Table 26: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 49Table 27: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 50Table 28: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 51Table 29: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 52Table 30: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 53Table 31: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 54Table 32: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2003-2010 55Table 33: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 56Table 34: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Pipeline Product Summary, 2010 62Table 35: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Pipeline Assessment, by Development Stage 63Table 36: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, List of Pipeline Products, 2010 - 2011 64Table 37: Rapid Test and Point of Care Market, Global, List of Pipeline Products, 2010 - 2012 65Table 38: ImmProCon Technology, Product Status, 2011 66Table 39: RAPIDPoint 500 System, Product Status, 2011 66Table 40: Sali - Chek Reader, Product Status, 2011 66Table 41: Point Of Care Diagnostic Device, Product Status, 2011 67Table 42: ACE Alera Clinical Chemistry System - Direct A1c Assay, Product Status, 2011 67Table 43: Advia 120 Hematology System - IRF (Immature Reticulocyte Fraction) Test, Product Status, 2011 67Table 44: Advia 2120 Hematology System - MPC (Mean Platelet Component) Test, Product Status, 2011 68Table 45: AIA (Automated Immunoassay Analyzer) - 600 II - D - dimer Test, Product Status, 2011 68

1.2 List of Figures

Figure 1: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 10Figure 2: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 11Figure 3: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Market Categorization and Segmentation 18Figure 4: Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 18Figure 5: Clinical Chemistry Rapid Tests and POC Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 20Figure 6: Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 23Figure 7: Immunochemistry Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 24Figure 8: Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 27Figure 9: Hematology Rapid Tests Market, Global, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 28Figure 10: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Cross Country Analysis, CAGR (%), 2003 - 2017 31Figure 11: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 33Figure 12: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the US, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 34Figure 13: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 35Figure 14: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Canada, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 36Figure 15: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the
UK, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 37Figure 16: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, the UK, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 38Figure 17: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Germany, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 39Figure 18: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Germany, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 40Figure 19: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 41Figure 20: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, France, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 42Figure 21: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 43Figure 22: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Italy, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 44Figure 23: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 45Figure 24: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Spain, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 46Figure 25: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 47Figure 26: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Japan, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 48Figure 27: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 49Figure 28: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, China, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 50Figure 29: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 51Figure 30: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, India, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 52Figure 31: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia, Revenue ($m), 2003 - 2010 53Figure 32: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Australia, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 54Figure 33: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2003-2010 55Figure 34: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Brazil, Revenue ($m), 2010 - 2017 56Figure 35: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Global, Pipeline Product Summary (%), 2010 62Figure 36: Rapid Tests and Point of Care Market, Pipeline Assessment, by Development Stage 63

Companies mentioned

F. Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories

Siemens Healthcare (Subsidiary of Siemens AG)

Beckman Coulter, Inc. (Subsidiary of Danaher Corporation)

bioMerieux S.A. (Subsidiary of Merieux Alliance Group)

DiaSorin S.p.A

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