Laurel Oldach

3 weeks ago | cen.acs.org | Laurel Oldach

Chemists and chemical biologists just keep dreaming up new ways to interfere with biomolecules. That research frequently leads to promising potential medicines, and there are more and more flavors of molecules at some stage of clinical or preclinical investigation. How do drug hunters choose between them? Twenty years ago, monoclonal antibodies were just emerging as a promising type of therapy on the strength of their selective binding to highly specific molecular motifs.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Krystal Vasquez |Laurel Oldach

A graduate student in chemical engineering at North Carolina State University is one of an uncertain but apparently growing number of international students in the US on visas that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has abruptly revoked. The chemical engineer, one of two Saudi nationals attending NC State whose visas were revoked last month, left the country after learning of their change in immigration status, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Laurel Oldach |Krystal Vasquez |Rowan Walrath

She was excited when the acceptance letter came in January, from a research university in a major East Coast city. "In my brain, I was like, 'Yeah, this is it,' " the student tells C&EN. But in February, when she put together all the offers she had, she began to feel nervous. The offer letter from the research university that was her first choice had promised a contract to follow, but it hadn't yet arrived.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Rowan Walrath |Laurel Oldach

The largest federal health agency in the US is slated to shrink significantly through workforce cuts and department consolidations. US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a video statement posted to X Thursday morning that his agency would reduce headcount from 82,000 employees to 62,000 and consolidate 28 divisions into 15.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Laurel Oldach |Krystal Vasquez |Rowan Walrath

She was excited when the acceptance letter came in January, from a research university in a major East Coast city. "In my brain, I was like, 'Yeah, this is it,' " the student tells C&EN. But in February, when she put together all the offers she had, she began to feel nervous. The offer letter from the research university that was her first choice had promised a contract to follow, but it hadn't yet arrived.