‘I didn’t realise that I had an interest in history,’ says Anita Quye, reflecting on her vibrant and varied career. ‘I just fell into this amazing world.’ Now based in History of Art at the University of Glasgow in the UK, Quye began her journey as a chemistry undergraduate two miles away at the University […]

A single drop of blood could soon be all that’s needed to perform a wide range of health tests. Researchers at Stanford University have been using mass spectroscopy to determine the levels of key chemicals in tiny volumes of blood. Although the approach sounds similar to the fake technology touted by the fraudulent US biotech […]

A proposal that would effectively ban the controversial class of chemical compounds known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the EU was published by the European Chemicals Agency (Echa) on Tuesday. The agency has described it as ‘one of the broadest’ restrictions of chemicals in the EU’s history. Proposed under the Reach regulation, the […]

The UK now has a dedicated government department for science, innovation and technology following prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle. The new department will be led by Michelle Donelan, who leaves her current role as culture secretary. Prior to Tuesday’s announcement, government science policy was led by ministers sitting within the government’s business department (BEIS). […]

The nitrogen macrocycles family has welcomed a new member – tetraquinoline. Researchers in Japan have reported the first-ever synthesis of this porphyrin-like structure, which shows strong affinity to certain metals, despite its non-planar structure. Tetraquinoline complexes could find applications in catalysis, pH probes and sensors, based on preliminary studies. Nitrogen macrocycles consist of linked units […]

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A new super-resolution microscopy technique has allowed researchers to see features in materials and living organisms at resolutions far finer than the diffraction limit without the need for fluorescent labels. This makes it easier and less disruptive than previous techniques, and could have broad applications, especially in biochemistry. The wave nature of light limits the […]

AlphaFold, an AI program that has previously demonstrated that it can predict protein structure from an amino acid sequence, has been paired with two other AI routines to afford an end-to-end AI drug discovery process even when a protein structure is not known.1 This combination of machine learning processes was able to predict a novel […]

Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) US subsidiary, LTL Management, has filed a legal complaint claiming that research describing a link between mesothelioma and cosmetic talc is fraudulent and should be retracted and/or corrected. LTL was formed in 2021 to assume J&J’s liabilities in talc litigation, covering thousands of lawsuits asserting Johnsons Baby Powder and other talc […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly employed to support drug discovery over the last decade. Pioneering start-ups have worked to convince traditional firms that AI and machine learning can save time and money, while amplifying novelty. An estimated 86% of drug development programmes ended in failure between 2000 and 2015. Meanwhile estimates of the cost […]