ACS Spring 2021News Releases

Meeting Dates: April 5-30
Meeting Hashtag: #ACSSpring2021
Theme: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

Questions? Contact newsroom@acs.org.

The ACS Spring 2021 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.

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Press Releases

Check back during the week of April 5 to view more news releases after their embargoes lift.

April 16, 2021

• Sweat sensor could alert doctors, patients to looming COVID cytokine storm (video)

April 15, 2021

• Snake species from different terrains surrender surface secrets behind slithering success

April 13, 2021

• Rescuing street art from vandals’ graffiti

April 12, 2021

• Making music from spider webs

April 9, 2021

• Toward a reliable oral treatment for sickle cell disease

April 7, 2021

• An amyloid link between Parkinson’s disease and melanoma

April 06, 2021

• Separating beer waste into proteins for foods, and fiber for biofuels

April 5, 2021

• Making cleaner, greener plastics from waste fish parts
• Paleopharmaceuticals from Baltic amber might fight drug-resistant infections
• Doping by athletes could become tougher to hide with new detection method

Previous Releases

• Highlights for journalists at ACS Spring 2021 meeting
• Kavli Lectures: Computer-designed antibiotics and water harvesting from desert air
• Innovative next-generation polymers to be featured on first day of ACS Spring 2021