To make biodegradable water-based coatings, chemists turn to a handful of polymer types, including polylactic acid, ...

It is the comprehensive analysis of the components of a food using omics technologies. Foodomics has really been made ...

Techniques like CRISPR promise improvements for crops, but policy and perception hurdles mean they may never take root in the ...

“Most of the flavor profile of the meat is due to the fat and the marbling,” Boyle says. That’s why she—and many others ...

Malignant cells down-regulate cell death by overexpressing a transcription factor called BCL6. “Our idea was to borrow a little bit of the activity of the kinase and drag it over to where BCL6 is ...

Next month’s US presidential election is sure to affect scientists—but exactly how a win for Donald J. Trump or Kamala Harris would ripple through the chemical enterprise remains unclear.

When Alnylam Pharmaceuticals founding CEO John Maraganore left the company in late 2021, he joked that he wanted to be a “grandfather” of biotech—not leading any companies, per se, but ...

“We’ve been calling it mycotecture,” Rothschild tells Newscripts, a portmanteau of “mycology,” the study of fungi, and ...

Since late 2021, Okorie has championed early-career chemists in the American Chemical Society’s North Jersey Section as ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

Antimalarials discovered over the last century have proved effective in fighting malaria. But the parasites that cause the disease often develop resistance to these drugs, leaving a demand for new ...

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun receive prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene ...