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Sharing the world of #chemistry: News🗞 Research⚗️ Infographics #PeriodicGraphics ℹ Pictures #CENChemPics 📷 Comics #SketchChemistry 🗯 #FluorescenceFriday ❇️
- Read an old book lately? These 15 compounds help make up the smell of old books! ow.ly/WdLf50vZkXq #ReadABookDay
- .@LiangbingHu and his lab have made an elastic wood with rubber-like proprieties that make it perfect for bouncing like a ball. Check out the procedure in the latest #CENChemPics: ow.ly/ys5750BomG5
GIF - #CRISPR wins the 2020 #ChemNobel! Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier are awarded for the #GeneEditing tool. Discovered less than a decade ago, the tool has already changed research and set off a race to develop therapies. Our story coming soon:
- BREAKING: John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham & Akira Yoshino win 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." Stay tuned for our story. In the meantime, tune into our #StereoChemistry chat w/ Goodenough last month: cen.acs.org/people/profile…
- Pfizer unveils the first orally administered inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease to enter clinical trials. Inhibiting this protease will prevent the virus from cleaving parts it needs to reproduce itself. Our reporter, @beth_halford, has more at
- For the first time, the Presidential Science Advisor has been raised to cabinet level. @PresElectBiden has appointed @eric_lander to the post. And chemical engineer @francesarnold & geophysicist @maria_zuber will the cochair the council of advisors: cen.acs.org/policy/Eric-La…
- A lack of signs for many scientific terms impedes deaf people’s entry into the sciences. Deaf scientists are trying to lower these barriers by developing more scientific American Sign Language signs. Learn how they’re expanding ASL's scientific vocabulary: ow.ly/m2iT50Fu2mY
GIF - Announcing C&EN’s 2022 Molecule of the Year! Read all about this year's contenders in the 2022 Year in Chemistry issue. fal.cn/3usXb
- #NobelPrize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share the prize for their research that made it possible to develop mRNA vaccines that are effective against COVID-19. Learn how RNA vaccines are made in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutical…
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase converts pyruvate, which the body derives from food, to acetyl-CoA, a fuel that cells can “burn” in the citric acid cycle. But when animated, Twitter user @SaHreports points out, it looks like a cartoon bar fight. #cenchempics ow.ly/cI8L50vfD09
GIF - This month, in honor of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight 17 Black chemists you might have missed in class:
- What causes acne, and how can it be treated? In this #PeriodicGraphics, Andy Brunning of @compoundchem explains the chemistry of acne medications: fal.cn/3r2Kk
- Now that RNA vaccines have joined the fight against #COVID19, take a look at how they're made. See more #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem at ow.ly/NxUC50Cydea
