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Skin deep science
Philip Ball takes a critical look at the science behind an anti-ageing cream and discovers there's some truth in its sugar-coated claims
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OpinionThe elements of drug design
Drug discovery requires experimentation, says Derek Lowe. But chemists can be reluctant to stray from the elements they know and love
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Scholarisine A
Ring strain is a fascinating phenomenon - one that is best understood with plastic modelling kits, wearing safety specs for ring sizes of four or less. These smaller rings are packed with energy, resulting from both tight bond angles (deviating from the tetrahedral ideal of 109.5?), and ...
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Letters: February 2012
In his comment article, David Fox (Chemistry World, January 2012, p42) highlights the importance of having access to a well-curated repository of small molecules for drug discovery (and chemical genomics), but he feels that it is important to ’combine a well-validated target with a means of intervention that minimises attrition ...
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OpinionAsteriscunolide D
Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioural oddities. While the properties and synthesis of smaller rings (three to six atoms in size) are well known, and that of true macrocycles can at least be estimated, each medium ...
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A packed dancefloor
To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball
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The language of the lab
Derek Lowe wonders what the lab lingua franca might be in the years to come
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Editorial: Sustainable Energy for All
Switching on the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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Letters: January 2012
Why is Chemistry World so shy about showing the language of chemistry on its pages? We do after all possess, along with music, one of the most efficient notations ever invented. So, in the latest edition I was very interested to see an article on marine adhesives (Chemistry World, Dec ...