From the Expert: Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Applications
Carolyn Bertozzi discusses her recent work on targeted degradation therapies that rely on bioorthogonal chemistry. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 13, 2024 Category: Science Tags: Videos Sponsored Videos Source Type: news

Making Connections: Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Simple, quick, and modular reactions allow researchers to create useful molecular structures from a wide range of substrates. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 13, 2024 Category: Science Tags: The Scientist University Sponsored Article Source Type: news

NSF spurs technology development of biological and chemical sensing applications
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $10.4 million to develop innovative technologies and solutions to address a wide range of challenges related to chemical and biological sensing. Through this investment, 16 multidisciplinary teams … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - February 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news

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Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - February 13, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news

Chemists' body asks Mankind to drop health supplement ad featuring Ranveer Singh
"The content implies that vegetarian individuals are at risk of vitamin deficiency, suggesting that your product can prevent this," the AIOCD has said in its letter to Rajiv Juneja, managing director of Mankind Pharma, the makers of HealthOk. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - February 12, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

2024 Marks an Important Year in NASA ’ s Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Not a lot of spacecraft have gone aloft with poetry etched on their sides. Actually, no spacecraft has ever gone aloft with poetry etched on its side—but no spacecraft has ever been quite like NASA’s Europa Clipper. The ship, which is in its final stages of assembly, will launch in October, making a long, six-year journey out to Jupiter. Once there, it will execute a series of close-up flybys of the planet’s mysterious moon Europa—a world that has an icy shell and a globe-girdling ocean, and is the one place in the solar system outside of Earth that astronomers and exobiologists consider the lik...
Source: TIME: Science - February 12, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Spikes in air pollution may increase suicide risk
A study combining air quality data and suicide reports from across China confirms earlier observations that heavy air pollution from traffic, factories, coal-fired power plants, and home heating can increase the risk of suicide. The study, published today, suggests a Chinese battle plan to clear the air, launched a decade ago, helped prevent some 45,970 suicides from 2013 to 2017. “It’s a well-done study,” says Roger McIntyre, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto. It’s also the first investigation he knows of that links lower suicide rates to improved air quality. Researchers have long known that...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 12, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Fast Food Wrappings May Pass on Toxic Chemicals to Pregnant Women
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 -- Think twice if you ' re pregnant and craving a packaged pastry or a take-out burger and shake.That indulgence can do more than cause unwanted weight gain. A new study shows that phthalates, chemicals associated with plastics,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Fast Food Wrappings May Pass on Toxic Chemicals to Pregnant Women
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 -- Think twice if you ' re pregnant and craving a packaged pastry or a take-out burger and shake. That indulgence can do more than cause unwanted weight gain. A new study shows that phthalates, chemicals associated with... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Dynamic risk assessment of chemical process systems using the System-Theoretic accident model and process approach (STAMP) in combination with cascading failure propagation model (CFPM) - Sun H, Wang H, Yang M, Reniers G.
To maintain continuous production, chemical plant operators may ignore faults or handle faults online rather than shutting down process systems. However, interaction and interdependence links between components in a digitalized process system are substanti... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karik ó review – real-life lessons in chemistry
This vivid account of the Hungarian biochemist who endured decades of derision before pioneering Pfizer ’s Covid vaccine is a tribute to her tenacity and self-beliefIn May 2013, Katalin Karik ó turned up for work at her laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and found her belongings piled in the hallway. “There were my binders, my posters, my boxes of test tubes,” she recalls. Nearby a lab technician was shoving things into a trash bin. “My things!” Karikó realised.Despite having worked at the tiny lab for years, the scientist – then in her 50s – was cast out, without notice, for failing to bring in ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Tags: Science and nature books Vaccines and immunisation Culture Coronavirus Immunology Infectious diseases Medical research Society Health Microbiology Biochemistry and molecular biology Source Type: news

German firm BASF to pull out of Xinjiang after Uyghur abuse claims
The German chemicals producer BASF has said it will withdraw from its two joint ventures in Xinjiang, after media reports about alleged human rights abuses relating to its partner company, which BASF’s CEO said crossed a red line. In a statement on Friday, BASF said that while “regular due…#basf #xinjiang #northwest #markorchemical #uyghur #uyghurs #beijing #martinbrudermüller #reinhardbütikofer #duncansmith (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Jury awards $130m to Nevada residents who suffered extreme liver damage after drinking trendy bottled water that was laced with ROCKET FUEL chemical - killing one and prompting emergency transplant in another
The Clark County District Court jury awarded more than $30 million in compensatory damages to the plaintiffs including Myles Hunwardsen, who underwent a liver transplant at age 29. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Phthalate Chemicals Tied to Costly Preterm Births in the United States
FRIDAY, Feb. 9, 2024 -- Hormone disruptor phthalate chemicals were associated with nearly 56,600 preterm births in the United States in 2018, according to a study published online Feb. 6 in The Lancet Planetary Health. Leonardo Trasande, M.D.,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

U.S. Nuclear Missile Bases Under Investigation for Cancer Risks
The U.S. Air Force is investigating nuclear missile bases for asbestos and other potentially cancer-causing materials. The Associated Press recently revealed that the issues date as far back as the late 1980s. Reports prove that the Air Force has been aware of toxic chemicals at nuclear launch silos for decades.  Air Force documents reveal details about several leaks and spills at missile bases across the country over the course of several years. Records describe repeated spills or leaks affecting service members working at the sites. The documents reveal internal reports of asbestos leaks at missile silos in 1989, as ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 9, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy Edel Tags: Air Force Asbestos (general) Asbestos Exposure Cancer (Non-Meso) Source Type: news