The Curious Wavefunction

I alluded in the last post to Breslow and Friend's discovery of DMSO as a HDAC (histone deacetylase) targeting agent. The story of how s...

Coronene has a poll on what everyone's least favourite NMR solvent is. I have not used all the solvents on the list, but among the ones...

Whenever I hear the name "cotton", the first thing that comes to my mind is "...and wilkinson". The second thing, apart ...

Yes, I know; reading this statement might make people think that megagallons of ethanol are coursing through my arteries. It sounds quite co...

Well, ok, nature does not actually adore a vacuum, but what are we then to make of Bruce Berne's newest PNAS piece , in which he talks a...

It is a bit ironic that a group from the same company that saw its drug sink has now come up with a nice crystal structure of the protein to...

After some scary experiences with my blogger dashboard disappearing, I discovered the simple solution; log in using the correct account name...

One of the great things about my department is the seminar program, and over the last three years, we have had some outstanding scientists a...

Back and back to blogging on January 23rd.

Almost two years ago, I relished giving a departmental seminar on a novel theory of smell by Luca Turin, which proposed that we smell molecu...