All Columns articles
-
Opinion
Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics
Chemical insights and advances are contributing to a new therapeutic avenue for mental health conditions
-
Opinion
Safety is everyone’s responsibility
Maintaining culture and investment is key, especially in the absence of incidents
-
Opinion
Ignoring women’s health shouldn’t be an option
Developing therapies for conditions that predominantly affect women is a neglected, but enormous, opportunity
-
Opinion
Women are not just another confounding factor in drug development
Ignoring physiological differences between the sexes is indefensible
-
Opinion
Rebuilding pharma supply chains
Multinationals are promising huge US investments, but it’s not all because of Trump’s policies
-
Opinion
Iran port explosion highlights issues of shipping hazardous chemicals
Intersecting regulations and jurisdictions mean rules can be accidentally or deliberately overlooked
-
Opinion
In search of truth and rules
To codify and predict ever more complex phenomena is one of science’s great drivers
-
Opinion
Quality research under threat as budgets are being squeezed
Researchers are once again being asked to turn less into more
-
Opinion
Giving companies room to grow
Can shopping centres and offices become urban lab spaces for innovative companies to grow and scale-up?
-
Opinion
Polymorphs matter – especially when they might disappear
Disappearing polymorphs offer a fascinating example of the dark arts of crystallisation
-
Business
Acceptable levels of (epi)genetic engineering
Amplifying or silencing genes may be preferable to permanently changing genetic code
-
Opinion
Trump’s tariff stand-off
Piling cost and complexity to stretched global supply chains will hit industries hard
-
-
Opinion
Welcome to the MegaPharm target selection and project resourcing meeting
Overheard recently in a seminar room near you…
-
News
They break it, we all pay for it
GK Chesterton’s legacy goes beyond his Father Brown detective novels and explains why tearing down institutions harms us all
-
Opinion
Getting into the weeds of the glyphosate debate
Assessments of the risk posed by the controversial herbicide depend on how the evidence is weighed
-
Business
US reviews chemical incident prevention planning rules
Risk Management Program has been extended and rolled back under successive governments
-
Opinion
Weight loss drug supply races
With official shortages ended, but the first generics gearing up for launch, companies are looking for the next generation of drugs
-
Opinion
Classifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19
Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects
-
Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on
Rebecca Trager catches up with four chemists to see how their working lives have changed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic