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For the past quarter-century, the gold standard malaria treatment has been artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs). Yet there are issues of treatment nonadherence and malaria parasite drug resistance. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
New treatments for malaria offer hope
Existing drugs combined in new ways, as well as new molecules, deliver in late-stage trials
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December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For the past quarter-century, the gold standard malaria treatment has been artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs). Yet there are issues of treatment nonadherence and malaria parasite drug resistance. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
The FDA may soon approve a molecule called bitopertin, which failed clinical trials in schizophrenia before Disc Medicine saw its potential for a rare blood disorder. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
How Disc Medicine rescued a discarded drug candidate
Bitopertin could give people with the rare disease erythropoietic protoporphyria their day in the sun
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December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The FDA may soon approve a molecule called bitopertin, which failed clinical trials in schizophrenia before Disc Medicine saw its potential for a rare blood disorder. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Bodies decompose differently in mass graves than in individual graves. By studying these changes, researchers hope to identify chemical signals that will one day help investigators find and analyze mass graves. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Molecular tools may help us locate mass graves
With experimental burials, scientists are looking for chemical signposts that could help investigators
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December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bodies decompose differently in mass graves than in individual graves. By studying these changes, researchers hope to identify chemical signals that will one day help investigators find and analyze mass graves. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Onepot.AI, a San Francisco–based start-up, has launched with $13 million in funding to use artificial intelligence and robotics to automate one of the most time-consuming steps in drug development: chemical synthesis. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Molecule-maker Onepot.AI launches with $13 million
With an AI engine named Phil and a robotic platform, the start-up cuts down on synthesis turnaround
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December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Onepot.AI, a San Francisco–based start-up, has launched with $13 million in funding to use artificial intelligence and robotics to automate one of the most time-consuming steps in drug development: chemical synthesis. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Our last Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the dyes of Prodipta Samadder facing off against Felipe Quiroga-Suavita's anisotropic nanocrystals. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Our last Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the dyes of Prodipta Samadder facing off against Felipe Quiroga-Suavita's anisotropic nanocrystals. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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Researchers have created a supersensitive and fast sensor for detecting antibodies that fight influenza and COVID-19. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Ultrasensitive sensor tracks flu- and COVID-19-fighting antibodies
Researchers could use it to make a skin patch that measures vaccine effectiveness
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November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Researchers have created a supersensitive and fast sensor for detecting antibodies that fight influenza and COVID-19. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
A new polymer reported in Nature may mark a turning point for needle-free insulin delivery. Researchers have developed a charge-shifting polyzwitterion that can carry insulin through intact skin and into the bloodstream. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
A polymer for needle-free insulin delivery
New material slips past skin and ferries insulin into the bloodstream
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November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A new polymer reported in Nature may mark a turning point for needle-free insulin delivery. Researchers have developed a charge-shifting polyzwitterion that can carry insulin through intact skin and into the bloodstream. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Our next Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the crystals of Prodipta Samadder facing off against Carina Crucho's starburst-like crystals. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our next Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the crystals of Prodipta Samadder facing off against Carina Crucho's starburst-like crystals. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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QSimulate, a quantum simulation software company focused on drug discovery and materials science, has completed a seed financing round. The Boston-based firm also released the newest generation of its quantum-powered simulation platform. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Quantum simulation company raises cash to speed drug discovery
QSimulate has announced a round of seed funding and new software to model molecular interactions
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November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
QSimulate, a quantum simulation software company focused on drug discovery and materials science, has completed a seed financing round. The Boston-based firm also released the newest generation of its quantum-powered simulation platform. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Our next Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of Alexander Krappe facing off against Gustavo P. Caraballo's scanning electron microscope. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Our next Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of Alexander Krappe facing off against Gustavo P. Caraballo's scanning electron microscope. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing
Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes
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Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes
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Inflection Point: The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing
Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes
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November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing
Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes
cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes
cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
While gene therapy can offer personalized cures, developing them is prohibitively expensive. Now, scientists report on an approach they hope could overcome those unfavorable economics: a single gene therapy. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Prime editing suppressor transfer RNAs for gene therapy
Liu lab suggests technique could provide ‘nonstop’ treatment for genetic diseases
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
While gene therapy can offer personalized cures, developing them is prohibitively expensive. Now, scientists report on an approach they hope could overcome those unfavorable economics: a single gene therapy. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Our first Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the accidental ice cube of Alyssa Redge facing off against Killiann Heinz's colorful photocatalysis liquids. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our first Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the accidental ice cube of Alyssa Redge facing off against Killiann Heinz's colorful photocatalysis liquids. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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Fascinating findings of 2025
These interesting science tidbits grabbed the attention of C&EN's editors: cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪
These interesting science tidbits grabbed the attention of C&EN's editors: cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪
Fascinating findings of 2025
These interesting science tidbits grabbed the attention of C&EN's editors
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November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Fascinating findings of 2025
These interesting science tidbits grabbed the attention of C&EN's editors: cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪
These interesting science tidbits grabbed the attention of C&EN's editors: cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪
Inchworm robots driven by cunning coordination chemistry are on the march, their flexible bodies powered by nothing more than the warmth of their surroundings. cen.acs.org/materials/mo... #chemsky 🧪
Europium complex harvests ambient energy to power minirobots
Inchworms can stroll for hours using scraps of heat from the environment
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November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Inchworm robots driven by cunning coordination chemistry are on the march, their flexible bodies powered by nothing more than the warmth of their surroundings. cen.acs.org/materials/mo... #chemsky 🧪
Quantum computers, like the one shown here, could someday allow chemists to solve problems that classical computers can’t. cen.acs.org/business/qua... #chemsky 🧪
Will quantum computing be chemistry’s next AI?
Despite billion-dollar investments, the technology faces hurdles that keeps its future uncertain
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November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Quantum computers, like the one shown here, could someday allow chemists to solve problems that classical computers can’t. cen.acs.org/business/qua... #chemsky 🧪
An enzyme gives atropisomers a specific twist
Biocatalytic approach could be used to make chiral ligands and drugs. cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi... #chemsky 🧪
Biocatalytic approach could be used to make chiral ligands and drugs. cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi... #chemsky 🧪
An enzyme gives atropisomers a specific twist
Biocatalytic approach could be used to make chiral ligands and drugs
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November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
An enzyme gives atropisomers a specific twist
Biocatalytic approach could be used to make chiral ligands and drugs. cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi... #chemsky 🧪
Biocatalytic approach could be used to make chiral ligands and drugs. cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi... #chemsky 🧪
Researchers report a “one-pot” strategy for producing bacterial cellulose in an array of colors. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
Biomolecular engineering creates a 1-pot method to spin colored bacterial textiles
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November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Researchers report a “one-pot” strategy for producing bacterial cellulose in an array of colors. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Artificial intelligence peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found. cen.acs.org/research-int... #chemsky 🧪
AI peer reviewers are fine with AI-fabricated papers
Study finds artificial intelligence reviewers accept AI-generated scientific studies 4 out of 5 times
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November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Artificial intelligence peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found. cen.acs.org/research-int... #chemsky 🧪
Just before the Thanksgiving break, Scarlett Lin Latt, an undergraduate in Jocelyn Lanorio’s lab at Illinois College made these colorful solutions of “related” cobalt compounds. cen.acs.org/articles/95/...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just before the Thanksgiving break, Scarlett Lin Latt, an undergraduate in Jocelyn Lanorio’s lab at Illinois College made these colorful solutions of “related” cobalt compounds. cen.acs.org/articles/95/...
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It’s the first time that proteomics has been used to analyze Renaissance recipes. The project demonstrates an innovative way to study medicine and the circulation and use of medical recipes from the past. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes
Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used
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November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It’s the first time that proteomics has been used to analyze Renaissance recipes. The project demonstrates an innovative way to study medicine and the circulation and use of medical recipes from the past. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Our last Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the anisotropic nanocrystals of Felipe Quiroga-Suavita facing off against Prodipta Samadder's dyes. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Our last Full Octet matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the anisotropic nanocrystals of Felipe Quiroga-Suavita facing off against Prodipta Samadder's dyes. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference. cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-... #chemsky 🧪
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference. cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-... #chemsky 🧪
At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference
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November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference. cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-... #chemsky 🧪
And 4 other takeaways for life scientists from the ‘off-the-record’ Make America Healthy Again conference. cen.acs.org/policy/MAHA-... #chemsky 🧪
Mosses, abundant plants known to accumulate air pollutants in their soft tissue, offer a cheap and promising way to monitor microplastic pollution in cities, agricultural centers, and even the rural forests of Tuscany. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
To search for microplastics, look to moss
Moss is used to monitor sulfur, nitrogen, and trace metals. Now a new pollutant is in town: microplastics
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November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Mosses, abundant plants known to accumulate air pollutants in their soft tissue, offer a cheap and promising way to monitor microplastic pollution in cities, agricultural centers, and even the rural forests of Tuscany. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week: cen.acs.org/business/Nov... #chemsky 🧪
Nov. 25 Business Watch: Flexsys readies safer tire additive; Moderna halts trials of 3 mRNA drugs
Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week
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November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week: cen.acs.org/business/Nov... #chemsky 🧪