Welcome to our newest editor, Dr Shuang Qiao! Dr Qiao joins us following four years working in the materials portfolio at Elsevier, and will handle materials science submissions. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

New paper out in @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social! We explore nanobiotech-driven colorimetric biosensors for faster, lower-cost, real-world diagnostics—from COVID-19 testing to wearable, multiplexed & smartphone-enabled platforms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Colorimetric biosensors for pathogen detection toward accessible and scalable diagnostics

Colorimetric biosensors are emerging as versatile analytical platforms for healthcare, environmental monitoring, and food safety by converting biologi…

sciencedirect.com

🕊️🧬A Special Issue of Trends in Chemistry in online now! www.cell.com/trends/chemi... Our Dec 2025 issue is joint with @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social on The Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, highlighting the innovations and thought leadership on nucleic acid research in the physical/chemical sciences.

Our joint special issue on the chemistry of nucleic acids, published with @cp-trendschem.bsky.social, is out now! Thanks to @jesspanch.bsky.social for Spotlighting two of the CRPS papers from the issue in Trends in Chemistry www.cell.com/trends/chemi...

Our weekly journal club meeting spanned hot topics across energy and materials. Check out some of the highlights here! 📖🧪

Our editor in chief @andrewbissette.bsky.social will be at the International Symposium on Foldamers at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social this week. If you're around come and say hello!

As the new semester kicks off and students head back to classes, we're back to our regularly scheduled journal club! ✏️📚 Explore some of our recent reads highlighted in the thread!

We're delighted to announce our new intern, Cocoa, has joined us for the next week. Cocoa will be handling submissions related to murine anatomy and Nepeta cataria pharmacology.

Feels like an age since our last journal club - it's conference season so the team have been out and about. But today three of us got together to take a look at recent papers. Quick thread of some highlights! 🧵

Oh hey our new Voices article is out - on building safer labs, physically, culturally, and psychologically. Featuring contributions from @trantteam.bsky.social, @shufflersunite.bsky.social, @rachael-dickman.bsky.social, and more! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Building safer laboratories by evolving culture and practice

Fostering a safe and productive environment in the laboratory is a challenge that faces both institutions and individual researchers at every stage of their careers. This Voices article shares perspec...

cell.com

Building material made of living #fungus can repair itself for over a month. www.cell.com/cell-reports... @cheveran.bsky.social @vilezz.bsky.social @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social

In case you missed it, check out this paper from @glowsticks.bsky.social and colleagues. It's one of our most-read papers in the last thirty days, and a great story on a surprising phenomenon (that you may have seen yourself in the lab)! 🌟💡

M. Eugenio Vazquez@glowsticks.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm thrilled to share your you our first paper on Non-Aromatic Fluorescence (NAF) of peptides in solution, just out in @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social 🧶 #ChemSky www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Message in a bubble: using physics to encode messages in ice. http://dlvr.it/TLR5Wc Beijing Institute of Technology Mengjie Song @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social

Our weekly journal club discussion had everything from building robots to breaking down trees - take a look at what we discussed this week! 🤖🌳

Save the date - on July 11th we're going live to talk about active matter in biology. Our three panelists work at the interface of physics and biology, promising a fascinating, interdisciplinary conversation. Register for free here: www.bigmarker.com/cellpress-so...

It's that time of the week again! 🌟 Here are our favorite journal club picks for you to peruse as you head into the weekend!

a cartoon of a minion wearing sunglasses that says its friday lets dance

ALT: a cartoon of a minion wearing sunglasses that says its friday lets dance

media.tenor.com

Sliding into your timeline to share some papers our team have been reading this week. That's right, it's journal club time babeeeeee 1/4

a man in a red and blue suit is sliding down a snow covered slope .

ALT: a man in a red and blue suit is sliding down a snow covered slope .

media.tenor.com

Delighted to welcome our newest colleague to the journal. They will be handling submissions in environmental chemistry and snacks.

We had a great discussion at journal club this week, with everything from small molecules to full devices. Check out some of the highlights in this thread! 🔬

Half the team are out of office today, so no journal club. BUT! Fear not. We still have a thread for you, highlighting some of our favourite papers from our April issue. 🧵 1/4

a close up of a woman 's face with a veil on her face and the words `` let 's go girls '' .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a veil on her face and the words `` let 's go girls '' .

media.tenor.com

if anyone wants an accessible primer on batteries, fuel cells, and even water splitting... it turns out that I've made one! It was the culminating lecture of the Thermodynamics course I taught for many years at @umnchemistry.bsky.social. #SciSky #ChemSky #BattChat www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOy...

StatMolThermo 13.06 Batteries and Fuel Cells

YouTube video by Chris Cramer

youtube.com

Shuai Guo et al. propose a precise approach for manipulating inter-/intra-polymer chain interactions in #MatterVolume8Issue4!

Thanks to @justinlemkulvt.bsky.social for this great summary of key challenges and best practices in performing biomolecular simulations.

Justin Lemkul@justinlemkulvt.bsky.social · last yr.

Really happy to have this one out in final form! Fun working with @biochem-anne.bsky.social and we had a great editorial experience with Cell Rep Phys Sci (thanks @andrewbissette.bsky.social et al. and the reviewers for their very constructive comments). #compchemsky dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xc...

Great paper out this week by @delafuentelab.bsky.social - summarised nicely in this thread! 🧵

César de la Fuente@delafuentelab.bsky.social · last yr.

(1/5)Delighted to share our new study in @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social, a glimpse of how intelligent systems can accelerate biology when data are scarce.

Guess what? It's Friday. Maybe you're thinking about the weekend. Maybe you're doomscrolling. But we're delving into the literature, hand-picking some recent gems to scrutinise in our weekly journal club. ITT: four of our faves. 1/6

TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Friday's journal club)! 🎉 Check out this week's highlights featuring research on catalysis, polymerization, batteries, and water treatment!

Our weekly journal club meeting had papers across the full lifecycle of materials, from synthesis to application to breakdown and reuse. Here are some highlights that we discussed today! #chemsky #engineering #energy #sustainability

In a thoughtful Perspective published this week @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social, Jürgen Bajorath explores the concepts of explainability, interpretability, causality and causability for AI models, particularly for models designed for tasks in the molecular sciences. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

From scientific theory to duality of predictive artificial intelligence models

The author presents a conceptual framework for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) encompassing model explanation, interpretation, and causality, guided by principles from scientific theory. He ...

cell.com

Deligted to publish this Perspective by Juergen Bajorath (@unibonn.bsky.social) on explainable AI, and the importance of distinguishing explanation vs. interpretation of models vs. causal reasoning. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

From scientific theory to duality of predictive artificial intelligence models

The author presents a conceptual framework for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) encompassing model explanation, interpretation, and causality, guided by principles from scientific theory. He ...

cell.com

Miso made in space tastes nuttier! Researchers successfully make miso at the #InternationalSpaceStation, confirming that making fermented foods in space is possible. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @medialab.bsky.social Maggie Coblentz @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Joshua D. Evans @cp-cell.bsky.social