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This insight report explores innovative research and technologies that played crucial roles in Covid-19 vaccine development.

NASA’s Artemis Program has also focused attention on topics such as food safety, reliability, and nutrition in space. This blog touches on novel approaches to these problems like 3D printed space food, the use of microbes to produce nutrients, and closed-loop space farming.

It is estimated that one in five human cancers involve RAS mutations. Although once considered undruggable, this blog looks at recent advances in RAS inhibitors and emerging therapies.

The COVID pandemic revealed deficiencies in mask development and production. Innovation will be crucial in slowing the spread of new variants of the virus.

mRNA vaccines have many potential advantages over conventional vaccines in mitigating the spread and eventually ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about mRNA vaccines and how CAS is committed to supporting the fight against COVID-19.

Targeted protein degradation is a novel and quickly expanding drug discovery strategy. It is a new way of utilizing disease-causing proteins to attack severe illnesses, which has the potential to be used among more serious illnesses, such as cancer or neurodegenerative diseases.

As COVID-19 cases rise again worldwide, the Omicron subvariant BA.5 is currently the dominant strain. This blog explores some key mutations that increase transmission, evade protective antibodies, and increase the rate of (re)infection.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have been growing exponentially over the last decade, but how has the field of Chemistry evolved with this emerging trend?

Lipid nanoparticles play critical roles in mRNA vaccines for treating COVID-19, but their use is not new. Read about past, present, and future opportunities.

The use of RNA in therapeutics has the potential to revolutionize medicine. This white paper highlights the emerging trends in the industry.

Molecular glues have been used to uncover new therapeutic agents. Because of their targeted protein degradation that holds them together, these glues have exciting potential in uncovering new drugs to fight cancer, immune diseases, and more.

This article summarizes the results of an extensive recent analysis of carbon dioxide capture, including research trends, methods employed, and storage.

The last decade has seen a dramatic shift towards RNA-based medicine. Rapid success in developing lipid-RNA nanoparticles for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, along with several approved drugs, has propelled RNA to the forefront of pharmaceutical research and development. Explore this revolutionary trend.

We are in the midst of a therapeutic revolution, according to the authors of a recent review article in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Biopolymers, or bio-derived polymers, are generated from renewable sources, which fix atmospheric CO2 and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

A literature search in the CAS Content Collection provides useful insights into recent and ongoing intensive research and development into green hydrogen.

Many technologies have been researched with an eye toward enabling a hydrogen economy.

This white paper details the CAS Biomedical Knowledge Graph and shows how it was used in drug discovery for COVID-19.

Most synthetic polymers are derived from fossil fuel resources, whose scarcity and imbalanced global distribution can affect plastics producers. Bio-based polymers, obtained from renewable biomass resources, have received wide attention in the past two decades.

While human capabilities have only increased due to recent technological and medical advances, they have significantly contributed to the release of around 830 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere in just the last 30 years alone.

Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) reduces patent application delays, increases patent quality, and optimizes patent office efficiency.

Learn about the important functions of intrinsically disordered proteins and the key role they play in COVID-19 therapy.

It turns out that these intrinsically disordered proteins may be the key to better overcoming diseases in neurodegeneration, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, amyloidosis, genetic diseases, and cancer.

This blog lists and discusses the common ingredients (both in the household and scientific contexts) as well as the unique ingredients used in the Covid-19 vaccines currently in use in the United States, and also addresses the dosage levels proposed for children under five years of age.

In the ongoing pursuit of greener energy sources, lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells are two technologies that are in the middle of research boons and growing public interest. Read this blog to learn more about the promises and challenges of these technologies.