NPR news archive

Fungi wake up to new natural products
29 April 2008
Re-awakening 'silent' metabolic pathways in fungi has revealed a new range of natural products to US scientists.

Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.

Search for structures within articles
02 April 2008
RSC Prospect's new features allow you to do just that - and more

NPR synthesis theme issue now online
27 March 2008
The latest issue of Natural Product Reports focusses on the synthesis of natural products

Free access in April
14 March 2008
Online access to RSC journals provided for customers for the whole of April
Analytical Tools for the Life Sciences - Oxidative DNA Damage
22 February 2008
One of three workshops on Analytical Tools in the Life Sciences.

Instant insight: Speeding up cocaine
11 February 2008
Chang-Guo Zhan introduces the use of computational designs to develop promising therapeutics for treating cocaine addiction and overdoses

Free online access for new journal
29 January 2008
Registration will provide free institutional access to Energy & Environmental Science in 2008 and 2009

Natural products research articles in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Read the latest natural products research and review articles published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Announcement: NPR Lecture Award winner 2008
21 January 2008
The 2008 Natural Product Reports Lecture Award has been won by Dr Jason Micklefield, the University of Manchester, UK.

Meet the NPR team
02 January 2008
The NPR team will be attending a number of conferences in 2008. Find out where you can meet us!

In Issue 6, 2007 of NPR
21 November 2007
The final NPR issue of the year features a Highlight article by Rolf Muller and Silke Wenzel and 10 reviews.

Instant insight: Natural remedies
13 December 2007
Jason Micklefield of the University of Manchester, UK, looks at how natural products hit the targets other molecules cannot reach

NPR Highlight: recent advances in the synthesis of polycyclic imidazole-containing marine natural products
27 September 2007
Steven Weinreb focuses on some recent approaches to the total synthesis of imidazole-containing alkaloids which have been isolated from marine sponges.

In Issue 4, 2007 of NPR
26 July 2007
Find out more about this issue's highlight article, HOT article and the front cover.

Natural Product Reports Heme Special Issue now published
30 May 2007
Issue 3 of Natural Product Reports, a special issue on the chemistry and biochemistry of heme proteins, is now available online.

NPR Award Lecture venue announced
24 May 2007
The 2007 Natural Product Reports Award Lecture will be delivered in September at the 5th European Conference on Marine Natural Products by Professor RX Tan.

Instant insight: In from the cold
03 May 2007
Bill Baker extols the virtues of cold-water marine natural products and considers their future prospects.

In Issue 2, 2007 of NPR
30 March 2007
Issue 2 features a Highlight article by Rajesh Gokhale and colleagues on polyketide synthases in mycobacteria, and seven reviews

In Issue 1, 2007 of NPR
02 February 2007
Issue 1 features a Highlight article by Gerardo Corzo and colleagues on natural products from spider venom, and the annual marine natural products review by John Blunt and coworker...

NPR Highlight: Marine metabolites make binding agreement
01 February 2007
Gerry Pattenden and Anna Bertram describe compelling evidence that azole-based cyclic peptides bound to metals play a role in biological function.

Announcement: NPR Lecture Award winner
04 January 2007
The 2007 Natural Product Reports Lecture Award has been won by Professor RX Tan, Nanjing University, China.

In Issue 6, 2006 of NPR
23 November 2006
Issue 6 features a Highlight article by Neil Bruce on bacterial pathways for degradation of nitroaromatics

NPR Lecture Award - Call for Nominations!
16 October 2006
The 2007 NPR Lecture Award is now open for nominations.

John Blunt presents the 2006 NPR Lecture Award
18 August 2006
2006 NPR Lecture Award recipient, John Blunt, lectures to delegates at the 2006 American Society of Pharmacognosy Conference in Washington, DC.

In issue 4, 2006 of NPR
01 August 2006
Issue 4 features a Highlight article by Christopher Walsh on Biological formation of pyrroles

Chris Schofield presents the 2005 NPR Lecture Award
23 May 2006
2005 NPR Lecture Award recipient, Chris Schofield, lectures to delegates at the 40th European Symposium on Bio-Organic Chemistry (ESBOC), Gregynog, UK.


