Chemistry year in review

C&EN is taking stock of 2016's biggest moments in chemistry.

EPA issues long-delayed chemical plant safety regulation

Risk management requirements likely to face unfriendly review by Trump, incoming Congress

Credit: Mark Wingard/CSB

Expanding CRISPR toolkit may render patent fight moot

Newly discovered CasX and CasY enzymes could be a safety net for UC Berkeley in an ongoing patent dispute

Credit: Ben LaFrance/Wikimedia Commons

Linde, Praxair agree to merger

The combined firm will have $30 billion in annual sales

Credit: Linde

Researchers take superresolution microscopy to the next level

New method, dubbed MINFLUX, achieves nanometer resolution and fast analysis by combining the best of earlier imaging techniques

Credit: Science