Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States ...

Catalysis is key to address today’s most pressing environmental and public health challenges; from pollutant degradation and clean water generation to ...

Mitochondrial diseases are severe, often untreatable, and they leave human cells unable to grow normally without outside help. A new study published in Nature Metabolism now shows that a single gene ...

After decades, scientists have finally pieced together the 23-step biosynthetic pathway to produce this cancer drug ...

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled a striking chemical reaction in which ripples along a frozen reaction front resemble the ...

Nucleotide synthesis—the production of the basic components of DNA and RNA—is essential for cell growth and division. In most ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four cancers. The enzyme, N4BP2, breaks apart DNA trapped in tiny cellular ...

A team of researchers engineered a new strategy to convert carbon dioxide into industrially applicable chemicals. The study ...

Ethylene—the chemical used to create much of the world’s plastics—has a carbon problem that Professor Ted Sargent is working ...

Several National Historic Chemical Landmarks are referenced in the ‘ACS sesquicentennial’ crossword puzzle and in these annotations. They include the New York City site where the society was founded ...