All Life articles – Page 12
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Research
NMR spectroscopy used to guide evolution of better enzymes
Identifying mutagenic ‘hotspots’ could speed development of new proteins
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Opinion
Why glycans?
Glycoscience is turning out to be more interesting than anyone might have imagined
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Business
Contaminated cough syrup linked to 66 child deaths in The Gambia
Medicines made by Indian generics firm Maiden Pharmaceuticals have been blamed for acute kidney injuries
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Feature
How click conquered chemistry
Katrina Krämer tells the story of how click and bioorthogonal chemistry came to win the 2022 Nobel prize
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Opinion
A promising breakthrough in liquid condensate compartmentalisation
Tears are RNA solvent droplets that could help engineer new functions into bacteria
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Feature
Tiny delivery systems for cancer drugs
Encapsulating anticancer agents in nanoparticles can make them gentler on the rest of the body. Clare Sansom reports
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Opinion
Nobel vision
Looking beyond the here-and-now let click chemistry open up a whole new world of possibility
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Business
Alzheimer’s antibody engenders anticipation
Tantalising press-released data on Biogen and Eisai’s lecanemab prompt questions without firm answers
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Business
Silky smooth tissue regeneration
Serigen mediproducts is harnessing one of India’s biggest industries to help heal wounds and rebuild flesh and bone
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Business
An evolution in pharma outsourcing
Contract services firms are becoming increasingly sophisticated and embedded in the ecosystem of drug development
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Opinion
Cracking codons
Understanding how chemistry links RNA triplets to the properties of amino acids
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Research
Split-cell design behind batteries that degrade and get absorbed by their environment
Batteries that breakdown on their own could help minimise electronic waste
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Opinion
The end of a long race?
The finishing line of the Covid-19 pandemic may be in sight, but we mustn’t stop running just yet
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Feature
Can we clean Covid from the air around us?
Nina Notman talks to the experts about what is needed to remove pollutants and even infectious diseases from the air inside our homes, schools and offices
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News
Genetically modified purple tomatoes receive US approval
Home growers will be able to purchase seeds from spring 2023
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Opinion
Contribute to defeating malaria
The Medicines for Malaria Venture needs new compounds for screening and more chemists to join its open-souce drug discovery project
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Feature
50 years of artemisinin
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how a wonder drug against malaria was discovered from a plant in a secret Chinese military project
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News
French inquiry censures lab that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid
Report raises awkward questions about prominent study on antimalarial conducted in Didier Raoult’s lab
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Research
Yeast engineered to ferment sugars into chemotherapy drug precursors
Semisynthesis offers new route to anticancer drug vinblastine