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Chemists Concerned About How Their Field is Viewed
Posted on December 13th, 2017 by Prima Sung in Chemistry
Chemistry and its importance in everyday life is often underrated at best, and wildly misunderstood at worst. The stock image of scientists in white lab coats holding beakers of toxic chemicals has been hard to shake (more…)
Chemists: Unsung Innovators
Posted on October 25th, 2017 by Christy J. Wilson in Chemistry
In many people’s minds, the classic image of the chemist is still someone in a lab coat standing over a burner, while chemistry itself tends to evoke thoughts of equations on chalkboards and fluids in beakers. But the reality is that these images are a bit outdated (more…)
2017 Nobel Chemistry Prize Awarded for Developments in Cryo-electron Microscopy
Posted on October 4th, 2017 by Betsy Davis in Chemistry
One of the year’s most exciting moments for the global chemistry community is here today, as The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has made its choice for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017. (more…)
Is the Pharma Industry Missing the Big Picture?
Posted on September 22nd, 2017 by Christine de Vries - Scheidegger in Pharma R&D
There is a disconnect between how drugs are developed and how they are used. In the traditional method of target-oriented development, each new candidate drug is scrutinized in a handful of interactions with desirable and undesirable targets. (more…)
