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New safety standards for PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, are changing the way we must test products and materials for quality and compliance.

Scientists have discovered an alternative, novel source of the important anticoagulant heparin, extracted from the mucus of the giant African snail.

Science writer Kerry Taylor-Smith takes a deep dive into the persistent problem of microplastics.

A new molecule, based on the anti-diabetes drug metformin, can bind copper, found to be important in acute inflammation, sepsis and cancer dissemination, and thus holds great promise for new therapy.

A new metabolomics workflow has been developed that combines state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation, which generates information-rich data, with a novel machine learning-based algorithm tailored to process it.

In this article, we take a look at the risks that PFAS pose and how national governments and international institutions are introducing regulatory policies and guidelines aimed at stemming the tide of PFAS production and protecting the public from exposure.

This article sheds light on the issue of image integrity in academic publishing and gives advice on how to reduce the risk.

In this opinion piece, Jan Wauters discusses why collaboration in science is so important and what the Windsor Framework could mean for research in Europe.

Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is an analytical technique that can be used across a broad range of applications, a few of which we will explore here.

Products coated with a small amount of drug that releases over an extended period of time aren’t suitable for traditional dissolution testing. Therefore, novel drug delivery mechanisms and devices require a new approach to this regulated technique.