Macrocycles in Medicine: Total Synthesis of the Ipomoeassins (All Things Metathesis)

Its not surprising that a natural product with promising therapeutic activities will quickly become a target for total synthesis by academics and medicinal chemists alike. Furthermore, its no longer surprising that if the natural product in question contains…

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Light-controlled Magic Bullet

Targeting diseased tissue directly with the drug to teach it, the so-called magic bullet, came a step closer thanks to work by Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics Colin McCoy of Queen’s University Belfast and his colleagues. They have developed a new light-controlled drug-delivery system they claim could minimize side effects.
“This system translates the high degree of [...]

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We may quarrel with men about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit.
 - Chief Joseph