Chemistry

A Cause of or Cure for Colony Collapse Disorder? Honeybees use pheromones, or chemical messengers, to communicate with each other and orchestrate complex but cohesive hive activities. While such chemical...

An Unexpected Hydrogen Bond Imagine all the things your body does each day. Whether it’s blinking, breathing, stretching or smiling, even the tiniest of tasks requires that your body orchestrate a series of...

Designing and Evolving New Proteins in the Hecht Lab Basically everything life does — photosynthesis, metabolism, vision, neural impulses, hormonal signaling, DNA replication — is mediated, at the...

The Price of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry If you feed a camel less and less every day, you save a great deal of money. But then the camel dies. This, according to chemistry professor Paul...

Imagine a future astronaut, hazmat worker, or deep-sea diver, needing to breathe air in a hazardous or even liquid environment. With a few grains of a new material from a Danish lab, they could breathe safely...

Imagine an ordinary box filled with an assortment of disorganized Lego pieces. Now, imagine taking that box and constantly shaking it. As you shake the box, you look down into it and realize that the Lego...

A little over ten years ago, Professor Jeff Schwartz from the Chemistry department decided to redirect his studies. It all began when, in the course of a medical examination, he had been told that...

Jenny Wu Coffee drinkers live longer and have a reduced risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. So, caffeine is good for you, right? Maybe not. Evidence shows that caffeine actually...

“Make sure to keep your immune system healthy!” How many times have you heard your doctor tell you take care of your immune system? Perhaps when you think about your immune system you picture T-cells and...