Bacterial enzymes help reveal natural product stereochemistry
 Newly discovered enzymes that are vital for bacterial defenses can also help chemists characterize the stereochemistry in…
Coral reef food chains cut short by human activity
 Food chains in the coral reefs of the Caribbean are up to 70% shorter today than in…
New nanoparticle separation method boosts biotech and cancer research
In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the…
Wavelength-steered directional rotation in an autonomous light-driven molecular motor
Baker, M. A. B. & Berry, R. M. An introduction to the physics of the bacterial flagellar motor:…
Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows
 Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows…
Assessment of leachables in hospital pharmacy compounded topotecan conditioned in common off-label syringes for intravitreal use
Reasoning behind the evaluation of leachable compoundsOff-label use of plastic syringes in batch compounding In a hospital setting,…
A new way to monitor chemotherapy drug behavior inside cells
Scientists have made incredible progress in developing cancer therapies that help patients across cancer types. However, they face…
Chemical tuning of quantum spin–electric coupling in molecular magnets
The Mn(Me6tren)X compounds The crystallographic structure of Cl derivative 1 is the same as that reported for its…
Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction
Chemical reagents The chemical reagents used in the synthesis experiments include tyrosine (C9H11NO3, 99.0 wt%, Sigma-Aldrich), histidine (C6H9N3O2, 99.0 wt%,…
Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity
General notes All aqueous solutions were prepared with ultrapure water (18.2 MΩ cm, Veolia). Chemicals were purchased with an analytical…
Bright triplet and bright charge-separated singlet excitons in organic diradicals enable optical read-out and writing of spin states
Photoexcitation in the spin triplet manifold is constrained to similar non-bonding to Ï€/Ï€* ‘bandgap’ excitations as for the…