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Ending of US weight-loss drug shortages prompts compounder complaints
Decision ends pharmacies’ permission to prepare versions of GLP-1 hormone mimics
NIH plan to centralise peer review could mean ‘substantial loss of expertise’
Agency says move will save money and reduce bias, but researchers are concerned about associated staff reductions
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Five tips for making the most of meet-ups
Berkelium snared in organometallic trap
Organometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created
Why companies are rushing to flatter Trump
Pharma firms are among many pausing diversity programmes and promising domestic investment
Last year a top Syrian chemist was murdered. The problem is he never existed
Fake news about assassinated scientists was ‘disturbing and distressing’ for targets
American Chemical Society diversity programme comes under attack
Lawsuit argues that ACS’ Scholars Program discriminates against white and Asian applicants
Centre of the Earth could hold large reservoir of iron–helium compounds
Compounds containing helium and iron can be stable at ambient pressures
COFs head for the big time
Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds
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Study challenges notion that solution-phase organic reactions are unfeasible at high temperatures
Capillary synthesis at 500°C converts N-substituted pyrazoles into their isomers within five minutes
Unusual radical reaction powered by strained substrates
Single-electron strain-release produces pharmaceutical building blocks
Green light for UK carbon capture projects – but will they deliver?
The country is already behind on targets to capture carbon dioxide and is playing catch up
New Trump tariffs worry North American chemical industries
High duties on imports from Canada, Mexico and China raise problems for international supply chains
Ferrihydrite in Martian dust may explain red planet’s colour – and hint at water-rich past
Idea of a dry past challenged, suggesting liquid water persisted longer than expected
Biomanufacturing proliferates in chemicals
Fermentation can improve sustainability at competitive costs
