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Promising targets for drug development Mammalian fatty acid synthase is one of the most complex molecular synthetic machines in human cells.

EAGER JOB CANDIDATES who receive an offer of employment might feel as though they have won an Olympic gold medal - especially when they are asked to provide a sample for a drug test.

Even closely related plants produce their own natural chemical cocktails, each set uniquely adapted to the individual plant's specific habitat.

Dozens of students enjoyed education, food, and fun at ACS's Summer School on Sustainability & Green Chemistry Mary Kirchhoff Mary Kirchhoff CITRUS Summer school students extract limonene from orange peels ...

For anyone whose last foray into chemistry was being forced to memorize the periodic table of elements in high school, there's new reason to take another look at a subject you may have vowed never to revisit ...

Tracy Valenta works for the Green Bay Metro sewer district as a water resources specialist.

Princeton scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions.

John Dalton devised the first atomic symbols, but they looked a little different from the ones we use today.

Grave danger: Onlookers gather at the site of explosion in industrial estate of Mankhal on Saturday.

The landmark status will be conferred by the world's largest scientific society during ceremonies in Philadelphia on September 15th.

Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world.

The Dow Chemical Company Foundation will officially announce a $1 million donation to the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry tomorrow.

Gelowicz, said to have led the plot, changed his religion to Islam and allegedly resolved five years ago to join the "jihad" or holy war against the West.

Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold.

The Dow Chemical Company Foundation will give $1 million to the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry to establish and endow the Dow Chair of Sustainable Chemistry, according to The Daily Californian .

Pale specks on the surface of this meteorite are among the oldest minerals in the solar system.

Sept. 4, 2008--The development of water-based acrylic emulsion technology - found in everything from house paints to adhesives, roof coatings, highway line markings and home insulation - by Rohm and Haas ...

OBC lecture award winner, Akimitsu Okamoto, talks about chemical probes and daydreaming over maps.

A Wake County judge has awarded more than $57 million to a Durham drug development company after finding that a former employee stole trade secrets and passed them on to Chinese drug companies.

A live webcast of Theisen's presentation will be available through the Bemis Company website at www.bemis.com . Interested parties can find the presentation in the Investor Relations section of the Bemis ...