Chemical Engineering News

Acquisitions: Eastman says the purchase will be immediately beneficial to earnings

Prebiotic Chemistry: Experiments reveal a possible path to forming the sugar in RNA

Commercial Product Analysis: Because of TiO2’s high levels in candy, children ingest more of the whitener than adults

Biopharmaceuticals: Crowded protein nanoclusters produce highly concentrated, injectable suspensions of the drugs

Targeting RNA: Small molecule binds to trinucleotide repeats associated with Huntington’s disease

Nanomaterials: A simple lithography method allows control over the size and arrangement of nanocrystals

Chemical Ecology: Madagascar frogs use volatile small molecules to communicate

Lab Safety: State investigator’s report alleges a breakdown in safety and training

RNAi Therapeutics: One-third of staff will be laid off as firm focuses on putting drugs into clinical trials

Researchers challenge a sensational claim, while others revisit arsenic biochemistry

Bureaucracy: Reorganization plan faces skepticism in Congress

Manufacturing: Partner Metabolix will lose access to commercial-scale facility, feedstocks

Plastics: Vinyls firm calls takeover offer ‘opportunistic’

Metabolomics: Researchers discover a metabolite associated with chronic pain from tissue injury

Protein Engineering: Researchers make, modify key player in Alzheimer’s disease

Materials: Cycloaddition chemistry yields hybrid metal oxide materials

Pharmaceuticals: Continuous-flow synthesis produces antimalarial at low cost

Science Policy: Federal report shows Asian countries closing in on U.S. leadership in science and engineering

Biofuels: Little research has occurred on the effects of biofuel use on biodiversity and human health, scientists find