Laurel Oldach

2 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

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

Pittcon, an analytical instrument conference and trade show, met in Boston this week. The event convenes scientists and vendors in the biopharmaceutical, chemical manufacturing, oil and gas, water quality, and food and beverage industries, along with service providers that cross industries, such as vendors of lab furniture and software. At the same time as the conference, a trade war between the US and its largest trading partners, China, Canada and Mexico, began to unfold.

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

The newest DNA sequencing technology from Swiss multinational Roche doesn't measure DNA directly but in fact analyzes a different polymer altogether. The technology is not yet available for sale, but it is already generating a buzz. "Our approach to efficiently sequencing DNA was to not sequence DNA," Mark Kokoris, head of the team behind Roche's forthcoming instrument, said in a recent webinar introducing the technology.