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Synthetic biology: lessons from the history of synthetic organic chemistry
Biology has historically been a field based ... However, the history of organic chemistry suggests that synthesis will be a necessary complement to analysis in order for biologists to truly ...
Psychedelic Breakthrough: Scientists Successfully Achieve Total Synthesis of Ibogaine
The discovery opens up opportunities to study the therapeutic properties of ibogaine and related compounds. Ibogaine, a ...
Modern Synthesis is making compostable materials that last a lifetime
Modern Synthesis’ fibers can be manipulated in ways that simple plant fibers cannot. They can be spread into a thin, ...
Chemistry World3d
First direct chemical synthesis of a gene over 1700 nucleotides long
Direct chemical synthesis has been adapted to make oligonucleotides of remarkable length, including an 800 nucleotide green ...
PBS8y
Ernst Mayr and the Evolutionary Synthesis
Along with Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, and others, Mayr achieved the "modern synthesis" in the 1930s ... passion for studying birds and biology. Emigrating to the United States ...
Nature2mon
Making carbon-nitrogen bonds in biological and chemical synthesis
The biosynthetic pathways leading to such bonds can be bypassed through chemical synthesis to synthesize natural products more efficiently and also to generate the molecular diversity unavailable ...
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Researchers achieve total synthesis of ibogaine
Researchers have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ...
Total synthesis of ibogaine creates new opportunities for studying a psychoactive plant derivative
Ibogaine—a psychoactive plant derivative—has attracted attention for its anti-addictive and anti-depressant properties. But ...