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Mini mass specs are still looking for an audience

Decades in the making, miniature mass spectrometers still face technical hurdles to wider commercial adoption




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Detecting traces of fentanyl in the field

Mini mass spec can detect lower opioid levels than other methods




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Shrinking magnetic sectors

Analytical chemists are bringing these old-school mass analyzers into the high-tech, miniature realm




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Sponsored content: How chemistry rocks music festivals

The science enables and enhances the all-encompassing live music experience. 




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Sending mass specs to Mars

Mini mass specs are key components of Mars rovers




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Chemistry in Pictures: ‘Dusty peacock’




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How an opossum protein may lead to a broad-spectrum snakebite treatment

San Jose State’s Claire Komives is testing an antivenom inspired by opossum biochemistry against various snake species to prevent deaths in the developing world




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Meet the Janelia chemist crafting glowing molecular tools for neuroscientists

Luke Lavis’s lab teaches old dyes new tricks at the HHMI campus




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Why some cuvettes are difficult to come by

A spot shortage of the analytical sample holder affects some scientists




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Discovery of new poppy enzyme might help improve yeast-based opiate synthesis

Adding enzyme to engineered yeast boosts production of thebaine, a key morphine intermediate




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Europe to ban some single-use plastics

New obligations for industry as the region and other areas target the causes of marine litter




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Methane ice dunes spotted on Pluto

Nitrogen sublimation and gentle breezes may form the hills




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Humidity controls supramolecular self-assembly

Trace water that gets into organic solvents can participate actively when molecules start to self-assemble




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Overhaul of scientific incentives needed to fix Ph.D. system, report says

National Academies committee calls for more emphasis on career counseling, teaching, and mentoring for grad students




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Deployment of Merck’s experimental Ebola vaccine well under way in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The first goal is to thwart the outbreak, but researchers also hope for new insights into combating the virus




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Experimental cancer cell therapies have nearly doubled in six months

A new report from the Cancer Research Institute highlights the U.S. and China as cell therapy leaders




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The difficult search for the right recipe in cancer immunotherapy

With so many ingredients on hand, can the oncology community figure out how to sensibly and efficiently combine checkpoint inhibitors with other drugs?




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Isotopes could sniff out fake truffles

The abundance of carbon-13 relative to carbon-12 reveals whether the key component of white truffle aroma originates from a natural or synthetic source




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Mining archived data for emerging pollutants

Data sharing project lays groundwork for contaminant “early warning network”




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Chemistry in Pictures: Call of Cthulhu




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Drug service provider Alcami to go to another private equity firm

New investor takes on a company trying to combine a range of pharmaceutical services




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CRISPR researchers receive Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, and Virginijus Siksnys win Kavli Prize in nanoscience, renewing Nobel Prize speculation and resurfacing a forgotten name in the CRISPR patent battle




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The ACS Board of Directors demystified




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ACS hosts Festival Training Institute in UAE




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Corporation Associates offers local section grants




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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation supports ACS Project SEED




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Business Roundup




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Bloom Science launches to treat epilepsy with ketogenic-diet-associated gut microbes

The start-up wants to develop treatments based on two kinds of bacteria linked to the antiseizure effects of the ketogenic diet




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HitGen raises funds for DNA-encoded libraries




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Avara advances in dosage form business with third buy




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Invista to upgrade Texas nylon intermediate facility




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Celebrating eccentric chemistry graduation traditions




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U.S. clears Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto




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Sadara plans pipeline for ethylene and propylene oxide




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Perstorp forms 3-D printing joint venture




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Reactions




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Lonza consolidates its New Jersey R&D




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U.S. Congress targets requirements for fluorochemicals in firefighting foams at airports




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Scientists push back against Trump administration’s proposed visa rules




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U.S. EPA proposes final pollution cleanup plan for American Cyanamid site

Goal is getting Pfizer-owned land in New Jersey back into use




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WuXi suggests that investors cool it




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U.K. pilots carbon capture technology




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Cortexyme raises $76 million to test bacterial protease inhibitor in Alzheimer’s




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Alginate businesses ebb and flow




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Chemical Safety Board finalizes investigation into Arkema fires following Tropical Storm Harvey

Agency urges the chemical industry to better prepare for extreme weather




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Career Ladder: Kabrena Rodda

This chemist and military academy grad found a varied career in national security




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Continuing education for your career




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Dutch masters—of 3-D printing

A new way of making things is taking hold in the flatlands of the Netherlands




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Conservators consult Forbes Pigment Collection to solve artwork mysteries

Library of 2,500 samples offers clues about hues, both old and new




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U.S. industries ask Trump administration to endorse global hydrofluorocarbon deal

With EPA regulation overturned in court, companies seek political backing for reducing HFC use domestically