When undergraduate James Carnahan synthesized a new
molecule in his chemistry lab at Columbia University 42 years ago, he hurried to his adviser, Thomas Katz, to share the good news.
Not exact matches
A machine
in University of Illinois
chemistry professor Martin Burke's
lab assembles complex small
molecules out of simple chemical building blocks, like a 3 - D printer on the molecular level.
By the end of my second year, however, I realized that studying a chemical process or
molecule in a
lab was not for me, so graduate work
in chemistry was out of the question.
The
lab of Beat Fierz at EPFL,
in collaboration with the group of Claus Seidel at the University of Düsseldorf, was now able to observe actual chromatin motions, using a unique combination of protein and DNA
chemistry, along with two complementary single -
molecule fluorescence spectroscopy approaches.
The computational protocol, which was validated by assembling physical peptides
in the
chemistry lab and comparing them to the computer models, may one day enable drug developers to craft novel, therapeutic peptides that precisely target specific disease - causing
molecules within the body.
Austin Bailey ’18 (T5) works
in a
chemistry lab to develop a special polymer that can attach other
molecules to nanotubes.