Piramal sites on different continents have become involved in producing Theracos’s diabetes treatment

Drugs can be made by more than just chemical synthesis. Here are stories of three from the sea, the land, and yes, the factory

4 high school students will head to Slovakia and Czech Republic in July for international competition

Naturally occurring compound inhibits replication of Zika virus in living cells

Chair departs, investigators leave, staff fears changing mission

Computer simulations provide mechanistic details that could help researchers replace costly platinum in fuel cells

Skyhawk will receive $60 million up front to develop drug candidates that target RNA in neurological diseases

Water loss from the gypsum crystal surfaces is a primary degradation pathway

Moon is a good candidate to host extraterrestrial life, but this find isn’t proof that it does

Study shows how stopping one enzyme could help drugs treat an important class of cancers more effectively

Adding positively charged molecules and a surfactant to β-glucosidase makes the enzyme work 30 times as fast

Chronic morphine treatment in mice restored a narcolepsy-related deficit in the brain, decreasing symptoms 

Iron from hemoglobin initiates radical reaction

Laureates honored in chemistry, life sciences, and physical sciences and engineering.

Naturally occurring compound inhibits replication of Zika virus in living cells

Water loss from the gypsum crystal surfaces is a primary degradation pathway

Mineral’s microstructure causes natural iridescence

New norbornene compound overcomes ring substitution limitation

The start-up is taking the technology deeper into manufacturing

Scientists are seeking ways to make beneficial but elusive sugars found in breast milk

Acquisition builds on recent purchases of electron microscope makers FEI and Phenom-World

Synthetic construct could someday replace damaged counterparts in disease

Multiple sources, including journal articles and chemical catalogs, get the borate bonding and reactivity wrong

Policy leader talks about publishing, the scientific enterprise, and how chemistry fits into it all

Lawsuit says the private equity firm sought an edge in auction of Praxair and Linde U.S. industrial gas assets

Chemical makers launch initiatives for recycling multilayer packaging and polystyrene

The French startup will develop an RNA-targeted therapy for the rare muscle disease centronuclear myopathy

Improvements to device may eventually cut external power demands for buildings by 50%

Sensor material outperforms conventional material by combining high transparency and low resistance

Terahertz spectroscopy study shows that water molecules reorient around solutes on 10-ps time scale

To learn more about lava’s unpredictable behavior and to mitigate its damage, scientists are creating and manipulating their own molten rock