Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition ...

The ascidian Ciona, a genus of sea squirts, undergoes metamorphosis from active, tadpole-like larvae to sessile adults.

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

In this issue of Nature Chemical Biology, Challis and coworkers 1 present an alternative paradigm for natural-product discovery in which the 'chance' component is largely abated.

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...