Shortage of water treatment chemicals for a major water treatment plant in Harare, Zimbabwe, has led to frequent shutdowns of the facility – exposing more than a million city residents to waterborne diseases.
DNA or oligonucleotide-based therapeutics to treat genetic diseases are coming of age. However, drug delivery of such relatively large molecules remains a challenge, Katrina Megget reports
US biotechnology company Exicure has entered into a collaboration with Allergan Pharmaceuticals International, a subsidiary of Ireland-headquartered pharmaceutical company Allergan.
The Southern Africa Kingdom of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is reported to have halved the number of recorded cases of TB, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The UK chemical industry is looking to work with the UK government to realise what has been estimated to be a £200bn market opportunity in terms of key market areas.
An international team of researchers has reported an ultracompact miniaturised spectrophotometer based on a single semiconducting nanowire (Z. Yang et al, Science, 2019, 365, 1017).
This month's Applied chemistry highlights include Photocatalytic H2 evolution system, Breaking the 2V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry and Superionic conduction
This month’s biomedicinal chemistry section of Highlights focuses on PROTACs (Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras; Figure 2a, where the black line is a linker).
Muriel Cozier reports on her visit to the Harwell Campus where she explored the Diamond Light Source facilities and the STFC laser facilities.
An industrial solvent derived from sawdust, and a process to harvest valuable chemicals from wastewater, are two examples of how ‘green’ extraction processes are on the rise. Lou Reade reports