Making biopharmaceuticals where they’re needed, when they’re needed
Systems make flipping the switch on biopharmaceutical production faster and easier, potentially enabling personalized medicine
3-D printing can construct batteries in novel shapes
Batteries with customizable shapes could power hearing aids and personal electronics
Latest artificial glucose-binding receptor is best yet
Supramolecular structure binds glucose strongly and selectively, pointing to future incorporation into diabetes treatment devices
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DuPont execs outline strategy for independence next year
The company will pursue smaller research and capital projects
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Countries debate plan to equate digitized DNA data to biological material
Controversial Nagoya protocol proposal aims to share benefits from genetic sequence information to conserve biodiversity
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The chemistry of Venus flytraps
If Venus flytraps could talk, we’re guessing they wouldn’t divulge how they lure, capture, and digest their prey. How much do you know about the chemical tricks used by the carnivorous plants?
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Chemistry in Pictures
Profiles
C&EN talks with Anne McNeil, diversity champion
Diversify Chemistry founder Anne McNeil talks about how she started and maintains the online directory
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Directory of academic chemists from underrepresented groups aims to inject diversity into conferences, job searches, and awards
Diversify Chemistry founder Anne McNeil talks about how she started and maintains the online directory
Jealous of your peers? How to stop comparing yourself to others
Chemjobber on how to turn your professional envy into a healthy dose of motivation
Diversity in focus at NOBCChE
Conference of black chemists and chemical engineers encourages connections, from high school students through university presidents
Job Listings
- Tsinghua University: Faculty Postitions at Tsinghua University
- Franciscan University of Steubenville: Tenure-track Position in Analytical Chemistry
- Loyola University New Orleans: Assistant Professor
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique: Professor Nanofabrication (AP 18-07)
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique: Professor Ultrafast Science (AP 18-08)
- Georgia Southern University: Georgia Southern -- 1 Tenure Track (Analytical)
Patch delivers drugs to eye
Double-layer structures allow delivery of 2 drugs at different rates
Hovione bulks up, with a twist
A pharmaceutical services pioneer cues up continuous tableting as it doubles manufacturing
EPA releases draft safe daily dose for Chemours’s GenX chemical
Number is four times as high as agency’s level for PFOA or PFOS
Neonicotinoid impairs bees’ social behavior
Researchers peer into the nest, observing that bumblebees exposed to the pesticide neglect their young
Nanostructured scales give moths a stealth coating
Porous structure absorbs sounds bats use to hunt