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October 10, 2022
John F. Hartwig, professor of chemistry and Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious John...
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September 28, 2022
Researchers discovered what may be a new approach for creating neuropsychiatric drugs, using a virtual library of compounds derived from chemistry developed by a Yale...
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September 27, 2022
In a university steeped in tradition, the Department of Chemistry kicked off the academic year by welcoming the newest cohort of grad students during the much-anticipated...
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September 27, 2022
Whether it’s a small or large molecule that needs characterizing, Yale’s Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC) has a device for that. The Center...
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September 22, 2022
A team co-led by Seth Herzon, Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Radiology, and Ranjit Bindra, Harvey and Kate...
September 7, 2022
The natural world possesses its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that “breathe” by exhaling...
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August 24, 2022
The human immune system is primed to fight off microbial invaders but sometimes it can misfire, causing inflammatory disease. For instance, an enzyme that plays a key...