While Judo Bio was preparing for its public launch, so was another siRNA start-up. City Therapeutics, the latest project of ...

Techniques like CRISPR promise improvements for crops, but policy and perception hurdles mean they may never take root in the ...

Next month’s US presidential election is sure to affect scientists—but exactly how a win for Donald J. Trump or Kamala Harris would ripple through the chemical enterprise remains unclear.

To make biodegradable water-based coatings, chemists turn to a handful of polymer types, including polylactic acid, ...

When Alnylam Pharmaceuticals founding CEO John Maraganore left the company in late 2021, he joked that he wanted to be a “grandfather” of biotech—not leading any companies, per se, but ...

It is the comprehensive analysis of the components of a food using omics technologies. Foodomics has really been made ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

Antimalarials discovered over the last century have proved effective in fighting malaria. But the parasites that cause the disease often develop resistance to these drugs, leaving a demand for new ...

“Most of the flavor profile of the meat is due to the fat and the marbling,” Boyle says. That’s why she—and many others ...

In March 2023, the Organising Committee of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing published a statement ...

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of ...

Eight Indian contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) have formed a trade group to boost the nation’s ...