Researchers have tested strategies to combine riboswitches—RNA motifs that change conformation in response to binding another molecule—with these aptamers to create biosensors that fluoresce only when ...

GEMMA Biotherapeutics, the start-up that gene therapy pioneer Jim Wilson founded earlier this year, has raised $34 million in ...

NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then, the spacecraft ...

A Norovirus protein and RNA undergo liquid-liquid phase separation to form “replication factories” inside a host cell ...

New York and Copenhagen–based start-up HERVolution Therapeutics has raised $11.7 million in series A financing. The company ...

Raw milk advocates cite studies that describe an association between consuming the product and a reduction in the incidence ...

The mining firm Rio Tinto is planning to invest $2.5 billion into an existing lithium project in Argentina. The facility will use chemical techniques to directly extract lithium from brine.

BASF has opened a catalyst development center in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after a “high double-digit million euro million” ...

Planet A Foods, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2024, has raised $30 million to commercialize a chocolate alternative made from robust crops like sunflower and grape seed. Climate change ...

Olin executives disclosed at a recent investor conference that the company intends to enter the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business. Olin already produces vinyl chloride and ethylene dichloride (EDC ...

Tata Chemicals Soda Ash Partners, a subsidiary of the industrial conglomerate Tata Group, has advanced a plan to power its soda ash plant in Green River, Wyoming, with small modular nuclear ...