Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

In 1993, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (JMC) published similar numbers of papers by chemists working in industry and by those in academia. Three decades on, the figures have changed drastically: ...

This is a guest editorial by Laura Howes, C&EN’s executive editor for life sciences. Welcome to this special issue dedicated to chemistry laboratories around the world. While many C&EN staffers have ...

Chemists at the Drug Enforcement Administration Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., are charged with the task of testing the deadly drugs brought in by the administration’s ...

Risk assessments and flexible working policies all provide valuable support - but how proactively this is offered varies ...