C&EN Monthly - August 2023

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Here are some of the top articles from?cen.acs.org?that have been creating a reaction:

C&EN at 100: A century of chemistry and of C&EN. To mark C&EN’s centennial, we asked you, our readers, to tell us what you see as the most consequential events, discoveries, and developments of the past century including the industrialization of the haber-bosch process, the growing popularity of plastics, the emergence of biologics, solving the structure of DNA, and more.

Can microbes replace synthetic fertilizer? In this week's cover story, we take a look at the companies who hope to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by replacing it with nitrogen-producing microbes.

The challenge of treating childhood brain cancers. There has been little progress in creating new drugs for childhood brain cancers in the past 40 years. But now, as advances in genomic analysis give scientists a better molecular picture of what is driving these cancers, chemists are developing therapeutics that can cross the blood-brain barrier to potentially treat them.

Toxic trouble as the Arctic heats up. In a new study, researchers identify a bacterial strain that could remove methane from the air at high-emission sites.

50 Years of MRI. Fifty years ago, chemist Paul Lauterbur achieved a milestone: leveraging his nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to capture images. Still today, chemists persist in uncovering novel avenues to amplify visibility and maximize the potential of MRI.

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