A team at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela has developed a more flexible chemical strategy to create ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

The 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners will be recognized at a ceremony in Washington DC at the National Academies of Science. RSVP to attend. Professor Keary M. Engle is being recognized ...

In his ACS 150th address, Omar Yaghi wove valuable lessons for chemists in between explanations of complex science ...

Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that’s comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one of humankind's greatest mysteries. Today, scientists work ...

A new method that captures and detects ‘hidden’ diazo metabolites has identified two of them in a bacterium that causes lung ...

Using catalytic chemistry, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have achieved dynamic control of artificial membranes, enabling life-like membrane behavior. By employing an artificial ...