COVID-19 vaccine boosters: what does the research show?

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
COVID19, vacunas, immune system, viral mutations

With the announcement of newer mRNA booster recommendations, many are asking whether they or their loved ones should get a COVID-19 booster and what science shows. This blog will explain the basics...

Lipid Nanoparticles – Key Players in Cancer Treatment

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
Lipid nanoparticles, Cancer Therapy

Since the discovery of the first-generation liposomes in the 1960s, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have evolved tremendously. The key application of LNPs as therapeutic vehicles is in the pharmaceutical i...

Exploring Knowledge Graphs for COVID-19 Drug Discovery

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
COVID-19, Therapeutics

Accelerating Opportunities for New COVID-19 Therapeutics

Real World Collaboration: Accelerating Scientific Innovation in an Evolving World

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
Real World Collaboration

I recently had the honor of joining a panel of global experts at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit to discuss the value of collaboration in speeding scientific discovery. For their annual F...

Coronavirus Variants: The Delta Variant and the Future Impact of Viral Mutations

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Viral Mutations, Coronavirus Variants, Delta Variant

If you are fully vaccinated, should you be worried about the impact of COVID-19 variants? No, in fact vaccines have been shown to be highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths from ...

Latest data on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in children

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
Childhood vaccinations, immunity, Covid19

Childhood vaccinations provide immunity to children against serious infectious diseases before they are exposed to them to prevent illness. Many childhood diseases, such as smallpox and polio, have be...

The Latest COVID-19 Vaccine Questions Answered

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
Covid19, vaccine

With the recent U.S. approval of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, many questions centered on the safety, efficacy, and composition of the different available vaccines. Given the high interest,...

Understanding the nanotechnology in COVID-19 vaccines

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
nanotechnology, covid19, vaccines

Lipid nanoparticles are a vital component of the new Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, playing a key role in protecting and transporting the mRNA effectively to the right place in ce...

Drugs approved by the FDA in 2020 reflect continuing trend of structural innovation

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
oncology, drugs, FDA, pharmaceutical industry, molecular shape

New drug innovation remained strong in 2020. The total of 53 drugs approved represented the second-highest number of approvals in more than two decades, a positive indicator of productivity in the pha...

Avoiding Costly IP Missteps: Insights for high-quality due diligence searches

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
webinar, IP search, chemical, diligence searches, legal conflicts, oncology, gene therapy, life science

As chemical and life science companies seeking to monetize their IP portfolios emerge from the challenges of COVID-19, 2021 looks to be a year that will see increased product licensing, acquisitions a...

SciFindern - Back to Basics

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
results, webinar, SciFindern, text searcher

SciFindern was developed to help scientists get to the most relevant information faster. In this webinar we will review the ways this is done. We will also review setting up broader exploratory text s...

Catalysis Searching in SciFindern

by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

3 years ago
SciFindern, chemical reactions, catalysts, biotransformations

Catalysts play a vital role in lowering activation energies for chemical reactions. In this webinar we will describe how to search coordination compounds used as catalysis, and also how to search less...