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		<title>It&#8217;s a Busy Busy Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of distractions at this time of year.  With all the holiday pressures, it is hard to get your regular work done at its usual pace.  But (and this maybe just me) work has a tendency just before a break to turn it up a notch, the to-do list gets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=301&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogging Chemist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline has put me onto an interesting article, this time about chemistry communication and collaboration via the web.  The essence of the article is that many sciences make great use of web-based collaboration, but chemistry as a whole lags behind and discusses why this is.
There are many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=295&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peaking into the Drug Pipeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a constant during the news stories covering mergers and takeovers between pharmaceutical and biotech companies, people tend to talk about their drug pipeline, how they need to combine their pipelines in order to meet their financial goals for the quarter/year/decade.  Often, they talk about how their combined efforts will result in a sruge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=291&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danger in Familiarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a chemist, I use hazardous materials every day and that is OK because I know they are dangerous so I treat them with the proper handling and respect they deserve.  But are we underestimating the danger of some things we use regularly?   Possibly a case of familiarity breeds contempt leads to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=282&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predicting Pharmacokinetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cool science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of challenges in drug discovery and medicinal chemistry, but it is safe to say that most of them stem from trying to make these compounds work inside human beings.  Not surprising as we are putting small molecules into a highly complex system that no one fully understands and expect them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=277&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting New Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cool science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromatography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some exciting things happened this week.  They might seem small to some of you who have seen it all before, but I thought it was all rather fun.
First was I got added to the blog roll at In the Pipeline.  I think Derek is pretty generous in adding chemistry-related blogs to the list, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=272&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Balancing Act of Selectivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cool science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug interactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kinase]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[modeling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world, where we can rationally design our drugs to target only the one receptor or enzyme we aim for and there are no side-effects or adverse reactions, we could find the ideal compound for every application and then dial up the prescription depending on the patient &#8211; the ultimate personalized medicine.
Meanwhile back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=266&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pzifer Closes Both Wyeth Sites in North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/pzifer-closes-both-wyeth-sites-in-north-carolina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are looking for a new position, one of the things I was advised to do was make a list of the qualities in a company you were looking for: size, commute distance, type of work, ability to telecommute, etc., etc.  One of the items on my personal list was &#8216;not involved in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=259&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment for Chemists</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/unemployment-for-chemists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current C&#38;E News has an article (actually a series of articles) on unemployment in the chemical industry.  While the country hits double digit unemployment, ACS members are experiencing unemployment at 3.8%, up from 2.3% last year.  Aside from my reaction to the number (something like &#8220;only 3.8%?!&#8221;), it is at least clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=252&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First post in a while</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/first-post-in-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[random thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog update]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in my new job for three months now.  It is going pretty well, I think, making progress and settling in.  I&#8217;m also enjoying the work and it is good to be at the bench again, making use of those now-not-quite-so-rusty synthetic skills.  So all is good (I even get to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&blog=7706204&post=249&subd=chemicalspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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