Outsourcing tales from the drug services industry trenches
Small drug companies often don’t have the resources to make their own products. Here are stories of how they work with service firms that handle the production for them
Chemical Safety Board to investigate Philadelphia refinery fire
Incident injured four workers and could have caused release of hydrofluoric acid
AbbVie to acquire Allergan for $63 billion
Latest drug industry megamerger comes as AbbVie faces patent expiration for Humira
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Chemical makers sign up for sustainability-linked loans
Companies are set to save on loan payments if they hit environmental targets
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Entrepreneurial chemist wants to reduce the environmental impact of detergents
Christoph Krumm cofounded Sironix Renewables to bring to market biobased surfactants that, unlike conventional ones, maintain their cleaning power in hard water
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This bacteria may help endurance athletes excel
Veillonella, which consumes lactate, blooms in marathon runners
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Career Ladder: Luis Martínez
This synthetic chemist is now teaching students to create companies rather than molecules
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Career Ladder: Luis Martínez
This synthetic chemist is now teaching students to create companies rather than molecules
Chemjobber’s mailbag: Business cards, interviewing etiquette, and more
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Francis Collins says it’s time to end all-male panels. These prominent chemists responded
Collins, head of the NIH, says he will stop agreeing to speak on panels that lack diversity
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Food chemists uncover the secrets behind pretzels’ unique scent
Researchers find 22 molecules that make chewy pretzels’ smell so tempting
CVS details dietary supplement–testing program
The retailer’s program requires third-party testing of supplements before they can be sold at CVS stores
3M admits to unlawful release of PFAS in Alabama
US EPA barred company from discharging two substances to water
Chemical makers sign up for sustainability-linked loans
Companies are set to save on loan payments if they hit environmental targets
Laser-made graphene enables simple, low-cost nanogenerator
Flexible, stretchable devices could be embedded in clothes and shoes to convert movement into electric power
Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from splitting water
Aligning the spin states of oxygen intermediates overcomes a bottleneck in electrolysis