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The antiaging molecule, when broken down, can paradoxically drive inflammation. Drugmakers are trying to capture only its benefits ...

Our contributor reflects on 3 generations connected to chemistry and the American Chemical Society—and finds reason to be ...

The methods predict the lung irritant risk of surfactants and oral toxicity of some pesticides but shouldn’t completely ...

Tweaking electronic properties of starting materials can help bypass an obstacle to elusive bicyclic drug scaffold ...

Visit the C&EN website to play our latest quiz: cenm.ag/september-4-quiz. Concerns about which hazardous compound closed a ...

Chemical weapons experts have identified the nerve agent used in the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent living in the U.K. It is part of a family of compounds known as Novichok agents ...

A corn field in Waseca, Minnesota. University of Minnesota Twin Cities agricultural researcher Daniel Kaiser found that adding a nitrogen-producing microbe to corn increased yield at this site in ...

Readers weigh in on petrochemicals in China, how to improve recycling, the commercialization of universities, and more ...

“Because the GLP-1 medicines reduce food intake, it's sort of natural for us to ask if GLP-1 medicines actually function as ...

The biotechnology firm BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million in series A funding. The company, which launched in 2023 with seed funding from Seattle Children’s Hospital, wants ...

Just under a year after netting its first US approval for a cancer-fighting menin inhibitor, Kura Oncology is launching ...