Scientists comment on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.    Prof Charlotte … read more

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Prof Emmanuelle Charpentier and Prof Jennifer Doudna for the … read more

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B Goodenough (University of Texas at Austin), M Stanley … read more

The annual conference of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), an independent company that carries out food testing and analysis, will take place on 21-22 June 2016. This meeting brings together scientists, regulators, enforcement agencies, industry, and policy makers to discuss food fraud, authenticity and safety. Ahead of the conference, a panel of experts came to the SMC to discuss these issues and update journalists on the progress made in food safety and authenticity in the years since the horse meat scandal. read more

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for research into DNA repair mechanisms, to Prof. Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute, jointly with Prof. Paul Modrich of Duke University School of Medicine, and Prof. Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. read more

Food fraud was in the spotlight last year during the horsemeat scandal, and food safety has been brought to the fore again recently following the detection of campylobacter in some supermarket chickens. The Laboratory of the Government Chemist, a company that carries out food testing and analysis, will be having their annual conference later in November. Ahead of this conference a number of the speakers came to the SMC to talk to journalists about various aspects of food safety, food testing, food fraud, supplements and food authenticity read more

Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka were awarded the prize for groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of cell receptors, G-protein–coupled receptors, that enable cells to sense their environment. read more

A paper in the chemistry journal Dalton Transactions showed how silver can kill cancer cells in the test tube. read more

The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Prof Danny Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals, metallic alloys with very unusual structures. read more

In 1995 Prof Crutzen shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on damage to the ozone layer. He briefed journalists at the SMC on his work and views ahead of delivering a keynote address at the annual Geological Society conference. read more

The prize was shared by Professors Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their work on developing new ways of linking carbon atoms. read more

The prize was shared between Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a research fellow at Trinity College Cambridge, Thomas Steitz from Yale University, and Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, for work on mapping the structure of the ribosome, the protein-manufacturing centre of the cell. read more

Industrial biotechnology encompasses a huge number of applications both within industry and in our everyday lives, including bioplastics to prolong the shelf life of food, enzymes in washing powder for use at lower temperatures, production of insulin for diabetics, and refinement of bioethanol from factory waste. The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Growth Team (IB-IGT), an independent body of experts from academia and industry established in November 2007, published their report to government this month, and key contributors presented their findings at the Science Media Centre. read more

Awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien for the discovery of the green fluorescent protein, a naturally occurring protein that allows animal such as jellyfish to glow. read more

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2006 has gone to Roger D. Kornberg Stanford University for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. read more

New regulations that will tighten up the testing of manufactured chemicals have been announced today in Brussels. read more