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FeatureAntidepressant pollution
What are the consequences of medicating wildlife against anxiety and depression? Ida Emilie Steinmark reports
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How ketamine could help treat severe depression
Nina Notman looks at how the party drug ketamine may hold the key to treating patients with severe depression
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The chemist with x-ray vision
Mike Sutton tells the tale of John Kendrew and his work on the structure of myoglobin
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Deal or no deal?
Clare Sansom highlights recent changes in the landscape of pharma company collaborations and acquisitions
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Shedding light on the dark proteome
Around half of all human proteins are a mystery. What do they look like, asks Phil Ball
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Chemical fossils
Andy Extance finds out what organic molecules made by microorganisms and plants far in the past can tell us about climate
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US water crisis
The problems that the US city of Flint had with its water were just the first drip in a wider problem, finds Sarah Houlton
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Urban air pollution
Nina Notman meets the chemists breathing fresh air into urban air pollution research
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New opioid drugs
Creating powerful new painkillers is a constant battle against side-effects – particularly addictions. James Mitchell Crow reports
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Bio-based building blocks
Plant-based alternatives to fossil-based chemicals can be dropped into existing manufacturing pipelines. Elinor Hughes finds out more
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Lab automation
Automated tools can take the drudgery out of routine lab work, Anthony King reports
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Intracellular delivery
Drugs that can enter cells and take useful payloads with them are maturing, finds Andy Extance
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The chemistry in your cuppa
Katrina Megget finds there’s more to tea than just a great brew – it’s also chemically complex
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What it takes to make a new element
Yuri Oganessian tells us how nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson were made
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Could artificial meat save the planet?
As meat production becomes unsustainable, Dinsa Sachan investigates the new industry of meat substitutes
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Personalised skincare
Nina Notman explores some of the latest scientific approaches skincare companies are using in the quest to develop high-earning anti-ageing cosmetics
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Smarter smells
After years of research, the flavour and fragrance industry is increasingly turning to biotechnology for commercial production, as Emma Davies reports
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Separating the guilty and the innocent
Chromatography is one of the key weapons in the forensic scientist’s arsenal, as Clare Sansom discovers
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Supraheroes
The three winners of this year’s chemistry Nobel gave chemists the tools to make molecules into machines. Emma Stoye assembles the story
