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ResearchDiscovery 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
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News
Drug discovery AI that developed new nerve agents raises difficult questions
Researchers shocked by how easily algorithm discovered novel poisons even deadlier than VX
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Opinion
A spanner in the works
Most drugs work by breaking or stopping something, rather than by making something faster or better
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Research
Sea sponges own unique chemistry goes beyond that of their bacterial guests
Biologically potent compounds can be made by sea sponges themselves
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Article
Causal emergence might explain how living systems can operate
Life does not run like clockwork
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Business
Patent office cements priority for Crispr gene editing in cells
Nobel laureates’ failed challenge means companies may need extra patent licenses
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Feature
The curious case of the ancient brain
A 2000 year old decapitated Yorkshire man and the ancient proteins in his preserved brain might provide clues to modern diseases, as Hayley Bennett discovers
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Business
Moderna sued over Covid-19 vaccine-related patents
Arbutus and Genevant say lipid nanoparticles that protect mRNA infringe six key patents
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Research
Epigenetic MRI offers a way to understand how the brain learns
First tests in humans could be as little as year away, researchers claim
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Research
Reprogrammed bacterium turns carbon dioxide into chemicals on industrial scale
Process achieved at industrial scale in 120 litre reactor
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Research
Electric field of ATP synthase suggests enzyme has functions beyond catalysis
Study links energy-making enzyme with proton migration in ATP formation, and reinforces predictions that its catalytic efficiency is around 90%
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Feature
Sequencing one cell at a time
New advances that allow scientists to uncover the molecular differences between individual cells could revolutionise medicine, Ian le Guillou finds
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Research
Sulfonated macrocycle helps the medicine go down
A supramolecular approach makes alkaloid drugs taste less bitter
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Research
Biochemical secrets of tarantula’s painful bite could point to perfect painkillers
King baboon spider venom could help scientists develop potent analgesics
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Research
New microscope makes tracking chiral molecules in live cells possible
The instrument uses circularly polarised light to tell left- and right-handed species apart and monitor them in space and time
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Research
Array of compounds found in plastics promote fat cell formation in vitro
A third of thousands of chemicals that leach from consumer polymers linked to the development of fat cells
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Business
Trials start of mRNA vaccine for HIV
First steps towards protection from the many and variable viral strains
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