Virtual Meeting News Releases
Meeting Dates: Aug. 17-20
Meeting Hashtag: #ACSFall2020
Press conferences URL: www.acs.org/fall2020pressconferences
Theme: Moving Chemistry From Bench to Market
Questions? Contact newsroom@acs.org.
The ACS Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo will feature thousands of presentations on new discoveries in science. The topics include food and nutrition, medicine, health, energy, the environment and other fields where chemistry plays a central role.
Check back during the week of Aug. 17 to view news releases after their embargoes lift.
Aug. 20, 2020
- Studying viral outbreaks in single cells could reveal new ways to defeat them (video)
- 3D printing ‘greener’ buildings using local soil
Aug. 18, 2020
Aug. 17, 2020
- Negative side effects of opioids could be coming from users’ own immune systems (video)
- Immunotherapy extends survival in mouse model of hard-to-treat breast cancer (video)
- Micro- and nanoplastics detectable in human tissues
- More healthful milk chocolate by adding peanut, coffee waste
- Ocean microbes could interact with pollution to influence climate
- Bio-based communication networks could control cells in the body to treat conditions
- Targeting iron uptake to create a new class of antibiotics against UTIs
- ‘Cyborg’ technology could enable new diagnostics, merger of humans and AI
- How sour beer gets so… sour (video)
- Stopping tooth decay before it starts — without killing bacteria
- Safer, more comfortable soldier uniforms are in the works
- Mixing silk with polymers could lead to better biomedical implants
- Converting solar energy to hydrogen fuel, with help from photosynthesis