HFC phase-out agreed at 28th Montreal Protocol meeting
2015 was the warmest year since modern record keeping began, image courtesy NASA (colours indicate temperature anomalies)
197 nations agreed to drastically reduce their use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) at the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in October.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry. Photograph: Nobel Prize
Professor Jeremy Sanders congratulated his 'old friends', chemists Jean Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa on their Nobel prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.
Shankar Balasubramanian profiled in Nature Methods
Courtesy Department of Chemistry
"It's good to consider many ideas and reject most, even all of them, on thinking them through," says Professor Shankar Balasubramanian in a recent feature article in Nature Methods.
Researchers discover vital role of Parkinson's Disease protein
Image courtesy Alfonso De Simone
Department of Chemistry researchers and their collaborators have identified important clues about what may be happening to patients when a protein associated with Parkinson's Disease malfunctions.
4-stranded DNA helix points to possible new cancer treatments
Image courtesy Jean-Paul Rodriguez and Giulia Biffi
Researchers in the Balasubramanian Group have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the progression of cancer, and suggest that it may be used to develop new targeted cancer therapies.
