One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates - Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division. The compounds could be promising new anticancer drug candidates.
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Rutgers Offers Hope in New Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries - Scientists at the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University and Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have developed a chemically synthesized siRNA molecule that allows regeneration of nerve cells. Sweet chemistry: Carbohydrate adhesion gives stainless steel implants beneficial new functions - A new chemical […]
Researcher lists more than 4,000 components of blood chemistry - After three years of exhaustive analysis led by a University of Alberta researcher, the list of known compounds in human blood has exploded from just a handful to more than 4,000. Bone drug zoledronic acid may help prevent spread of early lung cancer - A […]
The lock shapes the key - Proteins normally recognize each other by their specific 3-D structure. If the key fits in the lock, a reaction can take place. However there are reactions at the onset of which the key does not really have a shape. Chemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the Max Planck […]
Chemist Robert Slinn and Reactive Reports webmaster David Bradley contribute their favorite news snippets from the world of chemistry About dopamine and brain chemistry - YouTube - Aspirin - Periodic Table of Videos - The handedness of DNA - DNA is handed. Henry Rzepa reflects on this fact. Alchemist chemistry news - This week The […]
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 on chemical spectra can reveal the fat content and profile of milk samples quickly and […]