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Feature3D printing adds another dimension
Nina Notman learns how 4D printing is opening the door to unique smart materials whose applications may only be limited by our imaginations
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Research
Cancer progression and harmful bacteria tracked with next-generation sequencing
Proof-of-principle study keeps an eye on leukaemia mutations and bacterial strains in patients
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Feature
The incredible antibodies of sharks, llamas and camels
Sharks and llamas share a strange quirk of their immune systems. Hayley Bennett finds out how their ‘nanobodies’ could help us tackle Covid and a host of other diseases
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Research
Life’s handedness could have arisen spontaneously on Earth
New insight into the origins of homochirality point to adaptation to energy sources as driver
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Business
Former Coca-Cola chemist imprisoned for trade secret theft
14-year sentence for Xiaorong You, who stole secrets related to BPA-free can linings from major chemical and coating firms
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Research
AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers
Enzyme with only five amino acid alterations depolymerises 51 different PET products faster and at lower temperature than other proteins
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Opinion
Wastewater has huge potential for global health
Monitoring programmes can help healthcare and empower communities
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Feature
The human health observatory in our sewers
From tracking disease outbreaks to monitoring drug use, there’s a lot to be learned from the things we flush down the toilet, Katrina Krämer finds
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Research
Yeast engineered to convert methanol into heparin
Production levels are currently low, but researchers hope the method could one day mean pharma doesn’t have to rely on animals for this essential medicine
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Research
Freeze–thaw cycles could explain how ancient RNA replicated without enzymes
Discovery solves puzzle of RNA world hypothesis
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Research
Controlling chemistry of chocolate making could speed up process without compromising taste
Non-microbial way to make chocolate that might supplant fermentation
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Feature
Life’s chemistry goes through the looking glass
Chemists were taught that natural systems only use L-amino acids. Andy Extance finds out just how wrong that is proving
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Research
AI tool finds green ways to turn chemical waste into drugs
Circular approach for industry by-products considers environmental, economic and geographic aspects to rank predicted routes for real-world applications
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Research
Edible, fluorescent silk tags could help stem tide of counterfeit medicines
Marker could be a simple answer to ensuring provenance of drugs
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Research
Pepto-Bismol compound’s structure unveiled after 120 years
Electron microscopy triumphed over x-ray crystallography as century-old structural puzzle around bismuth subsalicylate is finally solved
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Business
UK takes subscription approach for new antibiotics
Decoupling payment from prescriptions helps preserve last-line antibiotics and encourage R&D
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Research
Discovery of microplastics in people raises difficult questions about health implications
Scientists keep finding tiny polymer particles in lungs, blood and placentas – but what does that mean means for people’s health?
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News
Chemistry Nobel laureate Sidney Altman dies at 82
Canadian–American molecular biologist won the 1989 prize for discovering RNA’s catalytic ability
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Feature
A decade of CAR-T cell therapy
Nina Notman looks at the revolutionary treatment already taking on cancer, now aiming for wider use
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Sponsored
How the chemical industry supports sustainable farming
Daniel Vennard, chief sustainability officer at the Syngenta Group, shares his perspective on why farming is an important part of the sustainability conversation
