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June 21, 2017

This polymer grabs PFOA like a boss.

Cross-linked cyclodextrin removes 93% of the perfluorinated chemical PFOA—a legacy of Teflon production—from water in lab tests.

POLLUTION

Surprise: Sunlight raises cadmium pollution risk.

Exposure to light increases solubility of cadmium red pigment in water, bucking conventional wisdom.

FORENSIC SCIENCE

Fly-egg profiling method reveals a corpse's time of death faster.

Rapid technique for classifying insect eggs on corpses expedites time-of-death estimations.

PROCESS CHEMISTRY

Flow chemistry reaches a manufacturing milestone.

Lilly chemists made this chemotherapy drug candidate in a multistep continuous flow process using current Good Manufacturing Practices.

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STARTUPS

Fermentation: The new way to polyglutamic acid.

Route to natural thickener for personal care products is just one of the innovative ideas to emerge from AkzoNobel's Imagine Chemistry competition.

PHARMACEUTICALS

How DNA-encoded compound libraries are revolutionizing drug discovery.

With the bar-coding technology, drugmakers leverage the chemistry of large numbers.

INSTRUMENTATION

PerkinElmer pushes further into diagnostics.

Purchase of Euroimmun for $1.3 billion continues expansion of firm's clinical diagnostics franchise.

PHARMACEUTICALS

Pharma gets a big win on product liability.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to restrict the ability of people who claim they were harmed by drugs to sue companies in out-of-state courts.

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