HotSpot Therapeutics debuts with $45 million to pursue allosteric inhibitors 
The company claims its technology will allow it to access previously undruggable targets  (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 17, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Lisa Jarvis  Source Type: research

Fetal gene therapy could treat genetic diseases in the womb
Researchers are working to fix genetic conditions like Gaucher disease before birth by testing experimental therapies on fetal animals (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Ryan Cross Source Type: research

Targeting immune cells could relieve chronic pain
Study finds macrophages talk to sensory nerves to elicit chronic pain caused by nerve damage (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Cici Zhang Source Type: research

Graphene-based device enables active thermal camouflage
Smart, flexible skins measure and adapt to ambient temperatures (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Katherine Bourzac, special to C & EN Source Type: research

A question on ethics
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Bibiana Campos Seijo Source Type: research

Changes on tap at U.S. Chemical Safety Board
Chair departs, investigators leave, staff fears changing mission (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Jeff Johnson, special to C & amp;EN Source Type: research

Entrepreneur rethinks lithium-ion batteries with an eye toward storing renewable energy
Chemist Amy Prieto of Colorado State University discusses her work to commercialize a safer, more customizable battery (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Prachi Patel, special to C & EN Source Type: research

A carbon fiber cluster grows in South Carolina
Teijin breaks ground on a $600 million plant in Greenwood as global demand grows for the strong, lightweight material (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Marc S. Reisch Source Type: research

How Europe ’s chemical industry learned to love REACH
Supporting the chemical management law is good for competitiveness, Europe ’s chemical industry now says (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Alex Scott Source Type: research

Janelle Ayres, Neal Devaraj, and Sergei Kalinin win Blavatnik Awards
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 16, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Linda Wang Source Type: research

Reactions 
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 15, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research

These new textile dyeing methods could make fashion more sustainable
Large and small suppliers vow to help a resource-intensive, cost-sensitive industry change with the times (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 15, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Melody M. Bomgardner Source Type: research

Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology goes to Karl Deisseroth
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 15, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Linda Wang Source Type: research

U.S. team heads to International Chemistry Olympiad 
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 15, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Linda Wang  Source Type: research

ACS Council and its role in shaping the society
(Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - July 15, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Mary K. Carroll Source Type: research