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Highlights in Chemical Biology

Chemical biology news from across RSC Publishing.



Issue 12, Research News


Instant Insight

The interface between HIV-1 integrase and cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75

Instant insight: The path of least resistance

07 November 2008

If targeting a virus directly promotes drug resistance, why not take a different approach?


A geothermal site

Instant insight: Life at the extremes

11 November 2008

Miniature natural product libraries can be found in the most unexpected places


Interview

Russell Cox

Interview: Fired up about fungi

17 November 2008

Russell Cox discusses his fiery introduction to chemistry and his work on polyketide biosynthesis


Research Highlights

A spider hanging on a dragline silk thread

INADEQUATE analysis of protein structure

21 October 2008

US chemists use solid-state NMR spectroscopy to probe the structural features responsible for spider silk's strength


A molecular model of a diphenyl urea bound to G4 DNA

Quadruplex binding clicks into place

06 October 2008

Ureas that shun the double helix for four-stranded DNA could lead to new anticancer drugs, say UK scientists


Disposable chip for non-invasive electrophysiological measurements

Chip measures channel currents

07 October 2008

Non-invasive chip technology offers order-of-magnitude improvement for ion channel studies


Kerr microscope reading a barcode-labelled DNA sample

The barcode and the bioassay

08 October 2008

Mini-barcodes are used to track DNA samples like luggage at an airport


Essential Elements

Oxygen symbol

Board member wins Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 has been awarded to Roger Tsien, a member of the editorial board for the upcoming RSC journal Integrative Biology


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