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MotW12 – potential prodrugs for Alzheimer’s disease
September 28, 2009 – 11:35 am | No Comment
MotW12 – potential prodrugs for Alzheimer’s disease

The molecule for this week comes from research out of the Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and concerns altering pyridinone N-substituents to optimize activity as potential prodrugs for …

Lifestyle Clues
February 3, 2009 – 12:09 am | No Comment
Lifestyle Clues

I found a pretty interesting article in C&EN about information that can be obtained from fingerprints.  We know that fingerprints can be used as clues to a person’s identity, and recently researchers have found that …