I haven’t done a drug Sunday in a while, but I feel as though I should, given the heinousness of my previous post. You see, I have some sort of anxiety disorder or something which appears to run in my family. I usually work this out with running but haven’t...

Heath Leger died, some speculate from a drug OD. From here:Six prescription drugs were found, including Ambien, Valium, anti-depressant Zoloft, Xanax, Zoplicone [sic] and DonormylSo, this is The Chem Blog and not Variety and I don’t care too much about...

Databases of chemical structures become much more valuable when data and structures are linked together. Today's stop on our continuing survey of free chemistry databases and Web services takes us to ChemSpider, a service that like few others embraces the idea...

Heath Leger died, some speculate from a drug OD. From here:Six prescription drugs were found, including Ambien, Valium, anti-depressant Zoloft, Xanax, Zoplicone [sic] and DonormylSo, this is The Chem Blog and not Variety and I don’t care too much about...

Also approved this year, on March 30th 2009, is Everolimus (USAN). Everolimus is an inhibitor of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), a serine-threonine kinase, and is indicated for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma after failure of treatment...

  A number of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, is presumably caused by malfunction of dopamine receptors in the vertebrate central nervous system. While most existing antipsychotic drugs target dopamine D2 and other receptors,...

Like it's acyclic cousin, cyclopropane is a colourless gas with a notable smell and taste that is both inflammable and potentially explosive and typically stored in metal cylinders as a liquid under pressure.Cyclopropane is the simplest possible cyclic hydrocarbon,...

Like it's acyclic cousin, cyclopropane is a colourless gas with a notable smell and taste that is both inflammable and potentially explosive and typically stored in metal cylinders as a liquid under pressure.Cyclopropane is the simplest possible cyclic hydrocarbon,...

My life as a postdoc is almost up, and so this blog will soon be reaching some sort of conclusion. Still, there’s some time to write a post or two that I’ve been meaning to write for a while.In my field, if you want to make progress, you end up...

Freakonomics, a book cowritten by the U Chicago economist Steve Levitt, is a treatise on the economics of ethics. I am in the school of belief that morality and ethics are separate but not mutually exclusive sets of… er…. lifestyle choices. Ethics,...

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The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...

The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...

The health benefits of green tea, from alertness-boosting antioxidants to aiding slimming and defying aging, are persistently splashed across the TV and the web. Now, according to a seminal study from German researchers, those wonderful polyphenols could also...

Last year, while visiting family in Germany, I decided to pick some walnuts to bring home to Norway. They were not ripe, which was good, because I was planning to make nocino, a walnut liqueur. You can easily find a number of recipes by googling and there is...

aromatic amine dye present in most hair dyesadded to henna paste to create "black henna", which is intended to make henna tattoos appear darker in order to create the classic black ink tattoo lookhenna (Lawsonia alba/inermis) is a flowering plant that contains...

My husband works in what I consider to be the materials side of chemistry (he is currently the only chemist in a group of physicists), so even though I am an organic chemist at heart, I really enjoy reading about new developments in nanotechnology. Yesterday...

Carbon disulfide, or CS2 (or commonly in my lab, “what the hell is that smell”) is a low-boiling organic solvent. Structurally, it looks just like carbon dioxide but with sulfur instead of oxygen. It’s used most often for Friedel-Crafts and...