Stephen Wallace

  • Photomicrograph of a flower ovary and ovule, artificially stained
    News

    The benefits of synthetic biology

    2017-08-19T09:00:00

    Why chemists need to embrace this rapidly developing field

  • Glowsticks
    Podcast

    Diphenyl oxalate

    2014-05-07T00:00:00

    Nature has a range of ways to create bioluminescence. Not to be outdone, chemists create their own glow with diphenyl oxalate.

  • Golden poison frog
    Podcast

    Batrachotoxin

    2014-03-26T00:00:00

    Stephen Wallace introduces batrachotoxin, a deadly toxin that comes from a beautiful little frog

  • Tasting something bitter
    Podcast

    Phenylthiocarbamide

    2013-10-30T00:00:00

    By tasting fantastically bitter, but only to some, phenylthiocarbamide (or PTC) exposed the genetics of taste