Tag Archives: anticancer

Chemical favorites for October 15th through October 16th

Posted by David Bradley on October 16, 2010 Comments Off

These are my reactive chemistry links for October 15th through October 16th: Evergreen anticancer drug – Yet another natural product for treating a form of cancer has been uprooted from an evergreen tree. Milky stats – A statistical model based …

Read more »

This Little Epo Goes to Market

Posted by spinneret on November 23, 2007 Comments Off

One of the very first articles I wrote for Elemental Discoveries (Issue 3 in March 1997, it was) was on the subject of a novel class of anticancer compound that had been isolated from soil bacteria. The article (archived now …

Read more »

A Tasty Approach to Flavanoids

Posted by spinneret on April 5, 2007 Comments Off

The flavanone structure is a tough act to swallow, synthetically speaking. Its the common skeleton for flavonoids and other compounds in plant-derived food and drink, such as red wine, dark chocolate, green tea, soy, milk thistle, kosam root, and citrus …

Read more »

Natural Choice

Posted by spinneret on March 22, 2007 Comments Off

Nature has provided the stock for pharmacy shelves for hundreds of years and is the ultimate medicinal chemist, according to research published in the March 23 issue of Journal of Natural Products. David Newman and Gordon Craig of the National …

Read more »

Blistering Barnacles – Bryostatin 2

Posted by David Bradley on September 1, 1999 Comments Off

Harvard University chemists have devised the first synthetic route to the potential anticancer drug bryostatin 2, which could also make it easier to produce the archetypal member of the group bryostatin 1 made as a defense chemical by marine barnacles. …

Read more »