How perfumers walk the fine line between natural and synthetic
Consumers are looking for natural scents; fragrance firms just want to be more sustainable
As more opioids go down the drain, scientists are tracking them in the environment
Researchers have begun sampling water and sediment to understand the extent of the problem
Video: First observations of self-assembling synthetic carbohydrates
The biomolecules can form nanostructures as peptides do, chemists find
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Wacker seeks help from biotech
Softening chemical markets encourage German giant to grow through biochemistry
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Hurricane Harvey flushed toxic metals into Houston’s water
A sweeping study of water quality in the storm’s aftermath concludes that the storm flushed metals and acidic water into Galveston Bay
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The secret silos of #ChemTwitter
An exploration of the chemistry network on Twitter, its silos, and its silo breakers
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Air pollution kills 780,000 people in Africa each year
Modeling study from NASA suggests Saharan dust storms account for much of the burden
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Chemistry in Pictures
Newscripts
Your April 22, 2019 Issue
- How perfumers walk the fine line between natural and synthetic
- As more opioids go down the drain, scientists are tracking them in the environment
- Inspired by the microbiome, can poop pills and gut bugs help boost cancer immunotherapy’s effects?
- Wacker seeks help from biotech
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Rescued from a war zone, an Iraqi chemist finds a future in pharma
A scholarship led Firas Jumaah to graduate studies at Lund University, which then saved him and his family from Islamic State militants
Chemist diversity by the numbers
A new US National Science Foundation report on diversity in the sciences gives insight into where chemistry stands
Job Listings
- Chemistry Dept./Georgetown University: Assistant Teaching Professor
- NIH, NIDDK: Natural Products Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow
- FDA/CBER: Post Doctoral Fellow
- FreeThink Technologies, Inc. : Senior Scientist, Ph.D.
- Virginia Commonwealth University: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ionomr Innovations Inc.: Senior Membrane Process Development Engineer
US FDA finalizes hand sanitizer rule
Agency seeks more data on 3 active ingredients, bans 28 others
US FDA finalizes hand sanitizer rule
Agency seeks additional data on 3 active ingredients, bans 28 others
Lilly recruits Avidity Biosciences to develop antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates
Avidity’s technology will help the duo get RNA therapies to immune cells
Panning for proteins identifies a malaria drug’s cancer target
Screening a library of human proteins reveals one way artemisinin kills tumor cells
Ferumoxytol, an iron-based nanoparticle drug marketed as Feraheme, kills leukemia cells in mice
The already-approved drug could increase treatment options for this challenging cancer