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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 4h

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 1d

One of the pictures that we took as part of our recent Adv. Mater. study got featured in @cenmag.bsky.social Chemistry in Pictures!

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Chemistry in Pictures: Eye spy

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 4h

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Max Barnhart @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social · 1d

Once you get dengue fever, you're at a much greater risk of severe disease if you ever get it again due to something called antibody dependent enhancement.

So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?

Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.

I was injected with dengue virus to learn about clinical trials

I became a test subject in a clinical trial for a new dengue treatment. Here’s what I discovered

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 5h

Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world

This computational chemist unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry. #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world

This researcher unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 5h

Materials advances in the past decade have led to key breakthroughs in fusion energy. Whether fusion becomes viable in the next decade depends on additional materials developments and steady financial support. cen.acs.org/energy/nucle... #chemsky 🧪

How advanced materials could unleash fusion energy

New materials are fueling a boom in commercial fusion projects. Will the hype pan out?

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 5h

Clean energy project developers are reeling after the US Department of Energy announced its intention to terminate 321 funding awards across 223 projects, a move it characterizes as saving US taxpayers $7.56 billion. cen.acs.org/business/inv... #chemsky 🧪

US energy projects in limbo after Trump administration revokes $7.5 billion in funding

The Department of Energy wants to terminate 321 funding awards mostly related to clean energy and grid stabilization

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 21h

Karl S. Booksh supercharges chemical measurements

This sensor scientist and chemometrician uses data to make the most out of analytical instrumentation.

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Karl S. Booksh supercharges chemical measurements

This sensor scientist and chemometrician uses data to make the most out of analytical instrumentation

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 21h

Seven years after the biotechnology firm launched, Akero Therapeutics is slated to be acquired by the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk in a deal worth up to $5.2 billion. cen.acs.org/business/mer...

Novo Nordisk shells out $4.7 billion up front for liver disease firm

The Danish pharma will acquire Akero Therapeutics

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 21h

West Virginia enacted the US’s first broad ban on synthetic food dyes in March. On Monday, an industry group filed the first lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban. cen.acs.org/policy/West-...

West Virginia’s sweeping food dye ban faces its first lawsuit

The International Association of Color Manufacturers is asking a federal court to strike down the state’s groundbreaking recent action against several synthetic food dyes

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

Eusebio Juaristi has spent a career thinking about molecules in 3D

This physical organic chemist has also contributed to the development of organic chemistry in Latin America.

#HispanicHeritageMonth
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Eusebio Juaristi has spent a career thinking about molecules in 3D

This physical organic chemist has also contributed to the development of organic chemistry in Latin America

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

Regulatory T cells, or T regs, make up the basis for a slew of biotech companies working to treat immunological diseases. cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

How Nobel-winning T regs fueled a new class of immunology companies

Nobel Prize–winning technology engineered to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Trailblazers guest editor uses computational models to study lung chemistry while building resources that help blind scientists succeed. #NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM

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Mona Minkara uncovers patterns in how our lungs interact with airborne viruses

The 2025 Trailblazers guest editor uses computational models to study lung chemistry while building resources that help blind scientists succeed

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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 2d

When my colleague @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social told us he was going to get dengue, I wasn't sure he was thinking clearly (or if @cenmag.bsky.social was paying him enough). But his interesting piece on clinical trials shows he was onto a good story. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

I was injected with dengue virus to learn about clinical trials

I became a test subject in a clinical trial for a new dengue treatment. Here’s what I discovered

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

Pablo Pastén tracks the chemical legacy of Chile’s mines

This environmental chemist is also working with the government to link science to public policy.

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Pablo Pastén tracks the chemical legacy of Chile’s mines

This environmental chemist is also working with the government to link science to public policy

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

After some biochemical sleuthing, scientists now think they have identified one of the molecular mechanisms that gives these wrinkly darlings their longevity: cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

The naked mole rat’s molecular secrets to a long life

Just 4 amino acids in an enzyme associated with DNA repair give the rodents longevity

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be.

#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Making space in STEM for people with disabilities

Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

ACS members take home 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Frank Leibfarth, professor and C&EN Talented 12 alum, is awarded a $250,000 prize. cen.acs.org/people/award...

ACS members take home 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Frank Leibfarth, professor and C&EN Talented 12 alum, is awarded a $250,000 prize

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Rowan Walrath @rowanwalrath.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel-winning T regs have fueled a new class of immunology companies. cen.acs.org/people/nobel... @cenmag.bsky.social

How Nobel-winning T regs fueled a new class of immunology companies

Nobel Prize–winning technology engineered to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 2d

Today is #NationalNanotechnologyDay 🔬

Here's a look at some of the big jobs tiny particles can do in @cenmag.bsky.social

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#ChemSky 🧪

This is an infographic explaining the chemistry behind nanotechnology in a few consumer products, including silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial uses, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens, carbon nanotubes in sports equipment and quantum dots in televisions.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

Juan Paulo Hinestroza matches nanotechnology with fashion design

This materials scientist creates garments that can change color, filter pollutants, or detect explosives.

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Juan Paulo Hinestroza matches nanotechnology with fashion design

This materials scientist creates garments that can change color, filter pollutants, or detect explosives

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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 3d

Behold the biological beauty of the naked mole rat. These rodents live around 37 years—10 times as long as their relatives of similar size. Scientists have identified one of the molecular mechanisms that gives these wrinkly darlings longevity. For @cenmag.bsky.social

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The naked mole rat’s molecular secrets to a long life

Just 4 amino acids in an enzyme associated with DNA repair give the rodents longevity

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

The future is uncertain, and it always pays to be prepared. It’s good practice to ask yourself if you have recent copies of important information stored someplace where you control access. cen.acs.org/careers/care... #chemsky 🧪

A reminder to be prepared, professionally

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

Many cycling clothing manufacturers are developing materials that go beyond the traditional single layer Lycra to help protect against road rash and other crash injuries. cen.acs.org/materials/Sl... #chemsky 🧪

Sliding and sticking with cycling science

Advances in clothing and tires help cyclists manage the various frictions associated with riding

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

"Inclusive design doesn’t just widen participation; it expands the very structure-function relationship of science itself. We all stand to gain from that."

#NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪
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The tools we build become the questions we ask

Why inclusive design is good for more than access—it expands the boundaries of discovery

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

Human serum albumin (HSA) is China’s top-selling hospital drug, yet most of it still comes from North American and European firms. Now a biotech start-up in the country has found an alternative source of albumin: rice. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Albumin made from rice could be game changing. But can the start-up that makes it survive?

China relies on blood donors overseas to meet a critical medical need. Healthgen Biotech has an alternative

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

In October 2025, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month #NDEAM. Meet the 2025 C&EN Trailblazers, chemists with disabilities who rethink how we do science: cen.acs.org/people/profi...

#DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪

Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science

C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways

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