August 25, 2008

Cover Story: Heading To Market With MOFs

For Metal-Organic frameworks, lab-scale research is brisk as commercialization begins.

August 18, 2008

Cover Story: Sustainability

Learning to live off the sun in real time.

August 11, 2008

Cover Story: Dow’s Dioxins

Saga of pollution, politics, and struggle over cleanup has nationwide implications.

August 4, 2008

Cover Story: Interaction Yields

Academia and industry work together to foster new routes to chiral compounds

July 28, 2008

Cover Story: Global Top 50

Sales and profits rise at most of the world's top chemical companies

July 21, 2008

Cover Story: Piece By Piece

More and more companies are using fragment-based lead design as a drug discovery strategy

July 14, 2008

Cover Story: Electronic Chemicals

New materials from chemical companies are helping the electronics industry advance solar power, semiconductors, and lighting.

The Sun Shines On Electronic Materials

Booming photovoltaic industry fuels demand for wider range and larger volume of materials.

Chipping In For Chips

Through a series of semiconductor alliances, IBM taps the chemical industry's materials expertise.

The Bulb Is Flat

Organic light-emitting diodes are taking shots at incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs.

July 7, 2008

Cover Story: Introduction: Facts & Figures Of The Chemical Industry

The chemical industry began to feel the impact of a changing economy in 2007

Editor's Page: Facts & Figures

The most complete set of statistics on the chemical industry available anywhere for the cost of membership in the American Chemical Society.

Finances: Growth In Demand Mitigates Soaring

Profits decreased, but strong finances supported capital spending
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Employment: Jobs Decrease In Most Regions

Japan was the only country to see major employment growth, U.S. continues decline
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Production: Gains In Chemical Output Decline

Production growth tapered in Europe but increased in Asia
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Trade: Export Patterns Shift With Falling Dollar

U.S.'s trade balance turned positive, and Europe's costly exports faded
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June 30, 2008

Cover Story: Pyrotechnics For The Planet

Chemists seek environmentally friendlier compounds and formulations for fireworks and flares

June 23, 2008

Cover Story: Devising Healthier Foods

Enhancing the good components and removing the unhealthy ones may prevent disease

Understanding Healthier Foods With Analytical Chemistry

Figuring out exactly what's in the food you eat calls for chemists and their analytical instrumentation

June 16, 2008

Cover Story: Contained Chemistry

Synthesizing highly potent compounds is a lucrative and growing niche for custom chemical manufacturers

Filling A Highly Potent Niche

Drug companies want to create conjugates of potent drugs and biological molecules, and custom manufacturers are complying

Drug Conjugates Advance In Clinical Trials

Many new therapies combining a highly potent drug compound and delivery molecule are targeting cancer

June 9, 2008

Cover Story: Communal Living

Scientists across academia and industry are making a concerted effort to understand and control bacteria that form biofilms

Exploiting Biofilms

BASF Explores Using Bacterial Surfaces To Its Advantage

June 2, 2008

Cover Story: Harnessing Helices

Chemical braces hold peptides in place, heralding a potential new class of therapeutics

Peptide Stabilization

There's More Than One Way To Steady A Helix

May 26, 2008

Cover Story: Up From Desktops

The leading suppliers of personal and business information technology—Microsoft, Google, Dell—are making a move in the life sciences laboratory

BASF Is Betting On The Farm

Spending on agriculture R&D nets a new herbicide and a biotech partnership

A Tsunami Of Electronic Waste

No high-tech solutions for the detritus of the Information Revolution

The Import Of Impact

New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community

House Cleaning

Coping with errors, ambiguity, and fudging in the realm of citations

May 19, 2008

Sourcing From China

Despite recent problems, Chinese suppliers remain an essential source of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals

May 12, 2008

Cover Story: Seeking Sustainability

Ingredient makers strive to understand and satisfy cosmetic labeling promises

STANDARDS

Sorting Through The Confusion In Personal Care Certification

Analytical Chemistry Comes To The Fore

Testing is critical for preventing and detecting contamination of drugs, food

Heparin Undone

A consortium of scientists raced against the clock to identify the cause of adverse reactions

Anatomy Of A Pet Food Catastrophe

Investigators deployed an array of analytical tools while probing a wave of pet deaths in 2007

Agency Depends On In-House Forensic And Toxicological Expertise

FDA scientific units have compiled evidence needed for several high-profile cases

May 5, 2008

Cover Story: The Forever Waste

A long view of high-level radioactive waste raises ethical questions of intergenerational responsiblities

April 28, 2008

Cover Story: Chromatography In The Extreme

Smaller particles, higher pressures, and other unconventional conditions spur speed and efficiency in separations

April 21, 2008

Cover Story: Lab-To-Market Connection

Specialty chemical companiestry to ward off commoditization of their products with a mix of marketing, formulation, and basic R&D

Buzzword In The Engine

Sustainability push highlights the role of specialty products in consumer and industrial markets

April 14, 2008

Cover Story: An Uphill Battle

With short lives and uncertain profits, antibiotics are a unique development challenge for drug companies

Imminent Threat

As gram-negative bacteria become resistant to current antibiotics, the search for new drugs accelerates

The Ketek Effect

Biotechs worry that FDA has gotten tougher on approving new antibiotics

April 7, 2008

Cover Story: Surface Science's Sage

Priestley Medalist Gabor A. Somorjai has been advancing surface chemistry for nearly five decades

Accepting The Medal In His Own Words

Molecular Chemistry And Catalysis By Surfaces

Gabor A. Somorjai

'Father of Modern Surface Chemistry' Helped To Advance High-Tech Industries

March 31, 2008

Cover Story: Building Businesses

Turning university research into products takes time, money, and initiative as four nanotechnology companies' experiences show

Stock Market

Indexes Track Pool Of Public Nanotech Companies

March 24, 2008

Cover Story: Pittcon Returns To The 'Big Easy'

Annual instrument show convenes in partially recovered New Orleans

Moving From Bench To Bedside

Symposium emphasizes need to translate spectroscopic methods from the lab to the clinic

Clues At The Scene Of The Crime

Advances in forensics push the limits of trace analysis and raise public interest in science

New And Notable At Pittcon

Scientific Instrumentation And More

Pittcon Awards 2008

Researchers receive honors for achievements in analytical chemistry and spectroscopy

March 17, 2008

Cover Story: Coal: The New Black

Long eclipsed by oil and natural gas as a raw material for high-volume chemicals, coal is making a comeback

March 10, 2008

Cover Story: Pharma Outsourcing

Small U.S. biopharmaceutical companies scour the globe to find manufacturing partners that can best meet their needs

Closely Linked

CASE STUDY #1: A unique deal with Siegfried helps Arena Pharmaceuticals advance its first product.

Keeping Baby Home

CASE STUDY #2: Anthera finds stability and flexibility in Albemarle, its manufacturing partner for its most precious asset.

Repelling Radiation

CASE STUDY #3: Cleveland BioLabs and SynCo Bio Partners huddle on a second shot at a defense contract.

March 3, 2008

Cover Story: Max Planck Society Moves Stateside

Germany's prestigious research society sets up shop in Florida even as it faces criticism at home

Looking Back

Society Addresses Its Difficult Past.

Employment & Salary Survey

In 2007, job market for chemists continued to improve and salary gains held at recent level of close to 5%.

February 25, 2008

Cover Story: Side Effects

Pharmaceuticals have been finding their way into our environment for a long time, but just what are they doing there?

What To Do With Your Unused Pharmaceuticals

Open up any medicine cabinet and you'll probably see shelves crammed with expired and unused medications.

February 18, 2008

Cover Story: Future-Oriented Spending

Chemical firms plan an 8.6% capital spending increase in 2008 but forecast a more modest 6.0% rise in R&D

February 11, 2008

Cover Story: Personalized Medicine

Armed with the decoded human genome, drug researchers and clinicians are working to close the gap between patient and therapy.

NCI Leads Push To Standardize Management Of Biological Specimens

Personalized medicine starts with biological specimens.

Major Research Centers Launch Efforts In Personalized Medicine

As drug discovery scientists shift their focus to the molecular characterization of disease, two major cancer research institutes are gearing up with new facilities dedicated to such personalized medicine.

February 4, 2008

Cover Story: China's Pharma Leaps Into Discovery

With breathtaking speed, Chinese contract research organizations have developed drug discovery services that go far beyond basic synthesis.

WuXi PharmaTech

China's Leading CRO Helps Transform The Way Drugs Are Discovered

January 28, 2008

Cover Story: Entering The Tiger Cage

Consumer demand for environmentally friendly cleaning products has changed the game for chemical suppliers.

Reaching Common Ground, Globally

Regulatory oversight doesn't mirror the shifts taking place in drug ingredient manufacturing

Optimism Prevails In Fine Chemicals

Signs point to a brighter business outlook, but the glass could be half empty for some custom chemicals firms

January 21, 2008

Cover Story: Greener Cleaners

Consumer demand for environmentally friendly cleaning products has changed the game for chemical suppliers.

Energy Impact

Small Danish Firm Has Big Hit With Cold-Water Formula

Green Advantage

Cognis And Alco Benefit From Natural Chemistry Roots.

January 14, 2008

Cover Story: World Chemical Outlook

The subprime mortgage mess and $100-per-barrel oil are making the economic picture at the turn of the year look like a small white ball bouncing on a roulette wheel.

United States

Economic woes may impact chemical industry growth, but a major downturn is unlikely.

Canada

Despite mixed results, the industry is optimistic about the future.

Latin America

Chemical projects abound in the fast-growing region.

Europe

Chemical industry rides the crest of the business cycle but readies for possible slowdown.

Asia-Pacific

Although region is still going strong, outlook darkens.

January 7, 2008

Cover Story: The Centrality Of Chemistry: Our Challenges And Opportunities

Let's celebrate and communicate the centrality of chemistry and advocate for science education.

Enzyme Opens For Business

Transglutaminase 2 structure may pave new route to developing treatments for celiac disease.

This page updated January 7, 2008