Open letter opposing change to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed an open letter to the White House, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State opposing modifications to temporary exemptions for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program...
9-Jul-2020 2:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun

Researchers reporting in Nano Letters have developed a wood-based steam generator that, with the help of bacterial-produced nanomaterials, harnesses solar energy to purify water.
2-Jul-2020 10:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Transgenic rice lowers blood pressure of hypertensive rats

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have made transgenic rice that contains several anti-hypertensive peptides. When given to hypertensive rats, the rice lowered their blood pressure.
19-Jun-2020 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Cellular nanosponges could soak up SARS-CoV-2

Researchers reporting in Nano Letters have used nanosponges coated with human cell membranes –– the natural targets of the virus –– to soak up SARS-CoV-2 and keep it from infecting cells in a petri dish.
16-Jun-2020 2:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Lessening water quality problems caused by hurricane-related flooding

June 1 is the start of hurricane season in the Atlantic, with flooding often the most damaging effect of tropical storms. Now, in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology, researchers study water quality impacts of two recent hurricanes in North...
28-May-2020 11:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Winds spread PFAS pollution far from a manufacturing facility

Concerns about environmental and health risks of some fluorinated carbon compounds have prompted manufacturers to develop substitutes, but these replacements are increasingly coming under fire themselves. Scientists have been studying how widely...
22-May-2020 9:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Nanobowls serve up chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes –– hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers –– to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells. Now, researchers report in ACS’ Nano Letters a way to stabilize liposomes by embedding a...
15-May-2020 10:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Fluorescent technique brings aging polymers to light

Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a method to visualize variations in polymers that arise with age.
1-May-2020 11:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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