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AI firm Apoha launches with machines that feel, taste, and smell
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (351+ words) UK start-up's "new kind of Raman' spectroscopy attracts $36 million in funding The London-based start-up Apoha has launched with technology designed to enable machines to simulate feel, taste, and smell and to understand how matter behaves, using data generated in its…...
From academic start-up to multibillion-dollar acquisition
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (451+ words) Christian Hackenberger talks to C&EN about the story behind Tubulis and what his Berlin-based lab is working on next Questions and answers with key voices in the field of chemistry. Hometown: Born in Osnabr'ck, Germany; based in Berlin Favorite…...
Exclusive: Lundbeck taps Cradle for antibody design
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (203+ words) Lundbeck scientists will use Cradle's artificial intelligence software for 2 programs The Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has tapped the artificial intelligence firm Cradle to help develop two antibodies to treat neurological disorders. Scientists at Lundbeck will use Cradle's AI software to…...
Controlling quantum properties with dry ice
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (313+ words) Crystal environment can influence nuclear spin conversion in molecules "We used dry ice and the simplest molecule in the universe: hydrogen," says coauthor Leah Dodson, a chemical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park. Molecular hydrogen can exist in…...
Policy Watch: FDA looks to expand real-time drug clinical trials
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (260+ words) FDA uses artificial intelligence as it moves to expand "real-time" clinical trials A pilot program to use artificial intelligence in clinical trials is already underway at the US Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced on Tuesday. The agency is…...
Experts share advice at UC Berkeley ACS150 sustainability panel event
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (217+ words) Alexis Bell of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department spoke on heterogeneous catalysts, Brooks Abel of the Chemistry Department spoke on polymerization reactions, Hendrik Scheller of the Plant and Microbial Biology Department spoke on sustainable energy sources and resilient crops,…...
How AI is taking over every step of drug discovery
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1698+ words) Academic scientists and pharmaceutical companies alike are embracing artificial intelligence, even as questions linger about its value A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 21 Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. In early September, from the…...
Around $1, 000 can buy you first authorship on a dodgy scientific paper
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) Cost varies across paper mills, but the least expensive one is in India, according to a new analysis of social media advertisements by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, special to C&EN The average cost of buying the first-author slot on a…...
Editorial: Facts are in crisis. What are we going to do?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (380+ words) Making sense of science in a gen-AI future will require a fine balance of skepticism and trust by C&EN editorial staff" Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. When Robert Boyle first developed the air…...
CAS built an agentic AI named Newton
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (237+ words) The tool was designed for science The latest news in meetings, awards, governance, ACS publishing, and more. "We don't look at Newton as just pure AI, right? Newton is a marriage of AI and peer-reviewed, proven science. And only CAS…...