Andrew Grant

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Andrew Grant's name may not be known to everyone, but he was a well-known computational chemist who made some very original contributio...

Virtual shock

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The  Raspberry Pi  computer sat innocently in the glove box. This particular glove box was military-grade, enclosed on all sides except o...

The GPCR Network: A model for open scientific collaboration

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This post was first published on the Scientific American Blog Network The complexity of GPCRs is illustrated by this mechanical view...

Review on N-methylation

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Veteran peptide chemist Horst Kessler (TU Munich) has a good review on the effects of N-methylation of peptides and proteins in a recent ...
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The value of long-term vision

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Friend and fellow blogger  David Kroll  has a great profile of Bob Lefkowitz, last year's chemistry Nobel Laureate from Duke. The mo...

Who knew VCs had a sense of humor

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So it's the annual J P Morgan Healthcare Conference in California and I see, of all things... #jpmpickuplines on Twitter. I don't ...

Chemistry and Biology: Kuhnian or Galisonian?

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Peter Galison who has emphasized the dominance of experimental techniques in engineering scientific revolutions (Image: BNL). First...
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Nobel Week Dialogue

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There hasn't been much blogging over the last two weeks, mainly because I have been blogging for a special event preceding the offici...

Why the same can be different: The case of the two enantiomers

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The R enantiomer (green) allows Tyr337 to adopt two different orientations. The S (yellow) does not. Since we were discussing thermod...
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Angewandte Chemie retracts hexacyclinol paper. Sort of

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So it seems that the infamous hexacyclinol saga has been finally put to rest and Angewandte Chemie has retracted the paper. For those c...
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