1+ hour, 21+ min ago   (350+ words) Scientists at Uppsala University have taken a significant step toward a long-sought goal in industrial biotechnology: using sunlight and carbon dioxide to feed engineered microbes that churn out valuable chemicals. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Stamatina…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (703+ words) Phenylalanine rarely gets top billing in discussions of molecular biology, yet this unassuming aromatic amino acid quietly underpins some of the most fundamental processes in the cell....

17+ hour, 56+ min ago   (904+ words) Medicinal chemists have long chased a deceptively simple goal: build drug candidates that are less flat, more three-dimensional, and more likely to succeed in the clinic....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (745+ words) OLEDs Bioengineer.org...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Nigeria have unveiled a new family of metal complexes that appear to do several jobs at once: killing bacteria and fungi, mopping up damaging free radicals, slicing through DNA in ways that could inspire future drugs, and even…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (879+ words) Zinc Powder, Room Temperature, No Palladium: Chemists Awaken a 130-Year-Old Reaction to Build Drug Molecules Every year the pharmaceutical industry fabricates medicines whose molecular backbones share one deceptively simple feature: a carbon atom bearing a three-dimensional substituent stitched directly onto…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (903+ words) A simple mineral catalyst and microwave energy have helped researchers produce a collection of complex drug-like molecules in minutes, while reducing the time required for a conventional synthesis from hours to a fraction of one hour....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (713+ words) Chemists have reported a new way to build stereodefined allylamines, a class of molecules that sits at the intersection of drug discovery, agrochemistry, organic synthesis and advanced materials....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (623+ words) A new copper-catalysed reaction could give chemists a powerful way to create chiral molecules from some of the most difficult intermediates in organic chemistry: highly reactive, unstabilized alkyl radicals....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (56+ words) A reaction long regarded as one of synthetic chemistry’s most stubborn challenges has moved closer to practical use. In a study published in Nature Catalysis, J.A.A. Grimm, L. Shi, N. Tsuji and colleagues report a catalytic asymmetric intermolecular carbonyl–ene-type…...