Chemical industry
The latest news from across the chemistry-using industries, including pharmaceuticals, fine and speciality chemicals, agrochemicals and petrochemicals, from the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World
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Business
11 executives jailed over Italian PFAS pollution
Convictions relate to groundwater contamination around Miteni fluorochemicals plant
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Business
US approves twice yearly injection to prevent HIV
Yeztugo (lenacapavir) provided near-total protection against infection in clinical trials
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Careers
Good network connections help startup founders and employees to succeed
Career success is easier with help from others
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Opinion
Contemporary chemistry owes a lot to benzene's beginnings
Celebrating what started when Faraday found the molecule with no end
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Careers
The startups that grew out of the Pfizer redundancies
18 months on, three former Pfizer employees explain how they’ve seized opportunities to fill gaps in the market
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Business
UK industrial strategy prioritises advanced manufacturing and life sciences
Government will subsidise electricity-intensive industries as part of support for eight key sectors
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Opinion
Critical metals supply strained
Conflict - both military and political - is having profound effects on supplies of a wide range of materials
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Opinion
The future of oil refining in the UK
Can plants adapt to be compatible with a lower-carbon environment?
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Business
Military demand strains metal supply chains
Conflict and trade disputes have disrupted global supplies of specialist metals like hafnium, antimony and rare earths
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Business
Congo’s cobalt conundrum
DRC government is intervening to revive prices and stabilise supply chains
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Feature
Hibernation awakens interest for drug discovery
With many different species entering torpor for a variety of reasons, scientists are looking to their sleepy secrets for ways to treat human diseases. Anthony King reports
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Business
RNA as a replacement for chemical pesticides
Argentinian start-up Apolo Biotech is teaching plants to fight infections
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Business
US plans to close Chemical Safety Board by October
Government says CSB duplicates capabilities in other agencies
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Business
Sanofi to buy Blueprint Medicines for over $9 billion
Blueprint has one approved drug and enhances Sanofi’s immunology portfolio
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Opinion
Safety is everyone’s responsibility
Maintaining culture and investment is key, especially in the absence of incidents
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Business
Crispr Nobel laureates get another chance to claim ownership in long-running patent dispute
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanualle Charpentier could recoup patent rights to the gene-editing technology, thanks to ruling from US appeal court
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Research
Polymer membrane separates hydrocarbons, offering alternative to distillation
Microporous membrane enables energy efficient chemical separations
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Business
Explosion and fire at Chinese chemical plant kills five
Six others missing and 19 injured at Shandong Youdao Chemical
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Opinion
Ignoring women’s health shouldn’t be an option
Developing therapies for conditions that predominantly affect women is a neglected, but enormous, opportunity
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Opinion
Women are not just another confounding factor in drug development
Ignoring physiological differences between the sexes is indefensible