Formaldehyde is a common chemical used in various industries as a disinfectant, resin precursor, and synthetic intermediate.

A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

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The present research thus shows how a dangerous industrial toxin, formaldehyde, can be transformed into a safe and valuable chemical, L-glyceraldehyde, using an engineered enzyme. This demonstrates ...

In December 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency released the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. A year later, in December 2025, the EPA ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the EPA locked in a formaldehyde risk evaluation built on the Agency’s long-controversial IRIS assessment—only for the next EPA to do something genuinely ...

For Robert Mifflin, it started with sore eyes and a runny nose. Soon, he was experiencing vomiting and nosebleeds. Eventually, after three years, he had developed such severe problems with his ...

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Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on knowledge of ...

The crystalline form of a drug affects properties such as its solubility, stability, dissolution rate, bioavailability and tabletability, and so understanding the crystalline state is crucial for many ...

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The EPA is proposing to revise a Biden administration approach to estimating formaldehyde’s health risks, which would result in certain occupations no longer posing unreasonable risk. The ...