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Grace Thoburn

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Executive Editor @ RSC - OBC, RSC Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Product Reports

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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 19/08/2025
Don't miss in our latest issue this review, part of our 40th anniversary collection, from Wen Liu & co. at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry looking at the PTM enzymes that remodel RiPP backbones #secmet #naturalproducts Check it out here🔽
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Remodeling of ribosomally synthesized peptide backbones based on posttranslational modifications
Covering: 2013–2024 Benefiting significantly from recent advances in genome mining, ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products have emerged as a source…
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 26/08/2025
Take a look in our latest issue at a Highlight by Chungwoo Lee & Sunkyu Han discussing the discovery, structure revision, synthesis and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids #naturalproducts 📍KAIST
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Discovery, structure revision, synthesis, and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids
Covering: up to 2025 Natural product-based research encompasses the discovery, structure elucidation, biosynthesis, synthesis, and application of naturally occurring secondary metabolites.…
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RSC Medicinal Chemistry @rscmedchem.rsc.org · 26/08/2025
Next up in the RSC Medicinal Chemistry Editor's Choice collection are Cynthia Dowd's chosen articles! Be sure to read our blog to see what she chose and why 👉 blogs.rsc.org/md/2025/08/2... And scan the QR code to see our collection as it grows👀
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Sustainable Energy & Fuels @sef-journal.rsc.org · 25/06/2025
Hello BlueSky and #ChemSky community! For our first post, we are delighted to welcome our new @sef-journal.rsc.org Editor-in-Chief Karen Wilson @profkwilson1971.bsky.social! 🎉 Find out more about Karen on our website ➡️ www.rsc.org/publishing/j... @rsc.org #RSCEnergy #Energy #Catalysis ‬
Sustainable Energy & Fuels published by the Royal Society of Chemistry has a new Editor-in-Chief Karen Wilson, Griffith University, Australia
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Shah @drabshah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My wonderful review article in Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org #rsc #humanmicrobiota #microbiome #peptides pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Human microbiota peptides: important roles in human health
Covering: 1974 to 2024 Human microbiota consist of a diverse array of microorganisms, such as bacteria, Eukarya, archaea, and viruses, which populate various parts of the human body and live in ...
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 12/05/2025
If you are at #SETACVienna this week please stop by and say "Hi" to Lauren at The RSC Stand, Lauren will be happy to talk about all things publishing at the RSC. @setac.bsky.social Check Mondays schedule 👉 bit.ly/3YESEGy #SETACEurope #EnvironmentalScience #EnvSci #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 09/04/2025
🎉We were delighted to present the 2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship to @ntiekfidele.bsky.social from the University of Buea at the Drug Discovery Africa 2025 conference last month! #chemsky #natprod #plantscience
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 18/04/2025
🎉We are delighted to welcome Professor Neha Garg @ngarg10.bsky.social from @gtresearchnews.bsky.social to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #chemsky #natprod Learn more about Neha here🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/04/0...
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 17/04/2025
We want everyone in the chemical sciences community to feel welcome, supported and valued, so we're sad to see some people seize on yesterday's supreme court ruling with anti-trans messages. Today, we're highlighting our resources on allyship for trans colleagues and friends ➡ rsc.li/4j6lojs
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LGBT+ toolkit
This kit provides the tools for everyone to take part in positive change: employers, colleagues, and LGBT+ individuals.
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 15/04/2025
📣 Check out the most popular publications from Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts from 2024 📣 All articles in the collections are now free to read and can be found here 🧪 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 27/03/2025
🔓Read this #OpenAccess review from Tobias Milzarek & our Editorial Board Chair Tobias Gulder @togulab.bsky.social at HIPS in our latest issue looking at the structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis and synthesis of fungal sorbicillinoids #natprod Find it below👇
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The fungal natural product class of the sorbicillinoids: structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis, and synthesis
Covering 1948 up to October 2024 Sorbicillinoids are a growing class of natural products (NPs) that stem from a variety of fungi including members of the orders Hypocreales and Eurotiales. This…
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 01/04/2025
🔓Take a look at this #OpenAccess article in our latest issue, part of our Emerging Investigators collection, from Mamoalosi A. Selepe & co. covering the total synthesis of isoflavonoids #natprod #orgchem 📍University of Pretoria, Sol Plaatje University
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Total synthesis of isoflavonoids
Covering: 2012 to 2024 Isoflavonoids are phenolic compounds with wide structural diversity and a plethora of biological activities. Owing to their structural variation and potential health-promoting…
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 25/03/2025
🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess highlight in our latest issue by Wen-Cai Ye, Ying Wang et al. from Jinan University discussing the recent advancements in crystallography for structure determination of natural products #natprod Check it out in full here🔽
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Advanced crystallography for structure determination of natural products
Covering: up to 2025 Crystallographic analysis has become the most reliable method for elucidating the structures of natural products, as it can provide absolute configurations with precise spatial…
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Matt Hutchings @handle.invalid · 22/03/2025
Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery (review article). #microsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery
Natural products have applications as biopharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other high-value chemicals. However, there are challenges in isolating natural products from their native producers (e.g. b...
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RSC Medicinal Chemistry @rscmedchem.rsc.org · 24/03/2025
Check out this work by Ying Liao, Qingwen Zhang & co on host-directing antiviral drug discovery: new flavonoid-based integrated stress response (ISR) activators active against coronaviruses👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/md/d4md00846d #Chemsky 🧪
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Targeting host integrated stress response: lead discovery of flavonoid compounds active against coronaviruses PEDV and PDCoV
Viral infections trigger the integrated stress response (ISR) in eukaryotic cells that leads to the activation of eIF2α kinases, the elevation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α)…
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 19/03/2025
📢Our latest issue is now live! Read the review behind the cover by Nunziatina De Tommasi, Angela Bisio & co at the University of Genoa & University of Salerno on sources, structural diversity, biological activity & data management of sesterterpenoids #chemsky #natprod pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 18/03/2025
Don't miss out on our exciting themed collection in Environmental Science: Advances! 👇 Submit your recent research on the environmental impacts of mining and recycling battery materials before 30 May 2025! 🔋🌏 Find out more ➡ blogs.rsc.org/va/2024/11/2... #EnvironmentalSky #Chemsky
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 19/03/2025
Be sure to check out our March outside front cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting a life cycle assessment study of European Space Agency's space tracking terminal #EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 19/03/2025
Be sure to check out our March Issue inside front cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting the effect of seawater acidification on hydrocoral EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...
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Environmental Science @envsci.rsc.org · 20/03/2025
Be sure to check out the March Issue outside back cover on Environmental Science: Advances, highlighting analysis of urban freshwater beach, sand and river contamination #EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky #freshwater #contamination doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 19/03/2025
Join us at Burlington House on 20th May for our #RSCSustainabilitySymposium and hear insights from RSC Sustainability Editorial Board members and invited speakers on sustainable technologies and cleaner chemical solutions. Register by 6th May: rsc.li/RSCSusSym25 #ChemSky
Join us on 20th May for the RSC Sustainability Symposium - register by 6th May
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 17/03/2025
🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess research in our latest issue from Kejia Shi & Bradley D. Smith at @notredame.bsky.social describing how cucurbit[7]uril encapsulation completely protects reactive imine in weak acid #orgchem Find it in full on our website🔽
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Cucurbit[7]uril encapsulation completely protects reactive imine in weak acid
An imine derived from 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)benzaldehyde and a primary amine undergoes very rapid hydrolysis in weak acid, however, it can be encapsulated within cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) to give a…
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 17/03/2025
🎉We are delighted to welcome @tilmweber.bsky.social from the Technical University of Denmark to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! Learn more about Tilmann here🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/03/1...
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 14/03/2025
Don't miss the research behind the inside front cover of our latest issue by Tomoo Mizugaki & co. from Osaka University describing the reductive amination of triglycerides to fatty amines over a titanium oxide-supported Pt–Mo catalyst #orgchem Check it out in full here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 14/03/2025
Take a look in our latest issue at this review from Kira Weissman & co at the University of Lorraine covering the chemical ecology and physiological functions of type I polyketide natural products #natprod Don't miss it below👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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The chemical ecology and physiological functions of type I polyketide natural products: the emerging picture
Covering: up to 2024. For many years, the value of complex polyketides lay in their medical properties, including their antibiotic and antifungal activities, with little consideration paid to their…
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Emily Day @thedaylab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New @thedaylab.bsky.social research now published in RSC Pharmaceutics! Important insights for those who use lipophilic dyes to label nanoparticles for cellular uptake and biodistribution studies. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Standard purification methods are not sufficient to remove micellular lipophilic dye from polymer nanoparticle solution
Tracking nanoparticles’ location is imperative for understanding cellular interactions, pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution. DiD is a lipophilic dye commonly used to label nanoparticles for traffick...
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Grace Thoburn @gracethoburn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Some great speakers just announced for the upcoming RSC Sustainability symposium in London later on in the Spring!
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Molecular Omics @molecularomics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢Our latest issue is now online! Check out the review article providing the front cover by Rosa Perestrelo & co at the Universidade da Madeira looking at integrating OMICS-based platforms and analytical tools for diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer #omics pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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RSC Sustainability @rscsustainability.rsc.org · 12/03/2025
Issue 3 of RSC Sustainability is out now! 💚 Check out the impactful research articles, reviews and the science behind the eye-catching covers in this jam-packed issue. 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky #sustainablechemistry
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 12/03/2025
🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess review in our latest issue by Julie Talbert & Steven Townsend from Vanderbilt University discussing the major classes of macromolecules in human milk and their potential role in infant health #natprod #naturalproducts Find it here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Human milk as a complex natural product
Covering: up to the end of 2024 Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to promote child health. However, characterizing the chemistry that fortifies the benefits of breastfeeding remain...
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 12/03/2025
📢Our latest issue is now online! 🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the front cover by Kohei Sato & co at Shizuoka University reporting a removable dialkoxybenzyl linker for enhanced HPLC purification of peptide hydrazides #orgchem #chemsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 05/03/2025
🔓Our annual Marine Natural Products review is in our latest issue and it's #OpenAccess! #ChemSky #NatProd A big thank you to the authors: Tony Carroll, Brent Copp, Tanja Grkovic, Robert Keyzers & Michèle Prinsep Read their coverage of the 2023 MNP literature here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Marine natural products
Covering: January to the end of December 2023 This review covers the literature published in 2023 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 582 citations (541 for the period January to December 2...
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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One month to go to the abstract submission deadline (24/03/25) for contributed talks at the 5th International #SolarFuels conference, which we're organising together with the @rsc.org in Newcastle, UK, this September. #chemsky #photocatalysis
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RSC Medicinal Chemistry @rscmedchem.rsc.org · 10/03/2025
🔓Take a look at recent #OpenAccess research by Xiaoyu Zhang (@xiaoyuzhang.bsky.social) and colleagues on exploiting the DCAF16–SPIN4 interaction to identify DCAF16 ligands for PROTAC development🔥 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Northwestern University #Chemsky 🧪
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Exploiting the DCAF16–SPIN4 interaction to identify DCAF16 ligands for PROTAC development
Traditional small molecule drugs often target protein activity directly, but challenges arise when proteins lack suitable functional sites. An alternative approach is targeted protein degradation…
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 10/03/2025
🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess research in our latest issue from Isaac J. Krauss & co @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social describing a system for in vitro selection of fully 2′-modified RNA aptamers #orgchem #chemsky Check it out in full on our website🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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A system for in vitro selection of fully 2′-modified RNA aptamers
SFM4-3, KOD DGLNK, and Therminator polymerase are investigated for their compatibility with SELection with Modified Aptamers (SELMA), an aptamer discovery method that enables incorporation of large nu...
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 10/03/2025
🔥Don't miss our first Hot Off the Press article of 2025 by Robert Hill & @andysuth14.bsky.social at @uofgchem.bsky.social on their selection of 32 recent papers covering the latest research in bioorganic chemistry & novel natural products #natprod Check it out here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Hot off the press
A personal selection of 32 recent papers is presented covering various aspects of current developments in bioorganic chemistry and novel natural products, such as hyperzrone A from Hypericum beanii.
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 05/03/2025
📢Our latest issue is now online! 🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the cover by Siegfried R. Waldvogel & co @mainzuniversity.bsky.social on the simple & versatile electrochemical synthesis of highly substituted 2,1-benzisoxazoles #ChemSky #OrgChem pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Molecular Omics @molecularomics.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hello BlueSky community 👋 you can now find us @molecularomics.rsc.org Follow Molecular Omics for leading research in multi-omics and single-omics technologies #ChemSky
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
Hello BlueSky community 👋 you can now find us @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org! Follow us for research and reviews on organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, chemical biology and more. #ChemSky #OrgChem #OrganicChemistry
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 03/03/2025
🎉Natural Product Reports was delighted to announce last month that @ntiekfidele.bsky.social is the winner of the 2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship! Read more about Fidele and his research here🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2025/02/0... #NatProd #ChemSky #PlantScience
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RSC Medicinal Chemistry @rscmedchem.rsc.org · 04/03/2025
This month's inside front cover features work by Vipan Kumar and colleagues on the synthesis and mechanistic insights into triclosan derived dimers as potential anti-plasmodials, read it here👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Guru Nanak Dev University #Chemsky🧪
RSC Medicinal Chemistry inside front cover for vol 16, issue 2.
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm really thrilled this paper is out!! Led by @amfankhauser.bsky.social and @andrewpault.bsky.social, it gives results from an innovative field campaign: researchers sampled particles in their homes during COVID lockdown (guess which one is my old apartment...) pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
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Indoor surface chemistry variability: microspectroscopic analysis of deposited particles in dwellings across the United States
Dwellings across the United States range dramatically with respect to numerous variables (e.g., size, ventilation, and proximity to outdoor sources), and there are considerable uncertainties regarding...
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agbrolo.bsky.social @agbrolo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The @labonachip.rsc.org review issue is out! It contains our review on the synergy between #plasmonics and #microfluidics. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Thx the Editors and my co-author Prof. Carlos Escobedo for all their support. I hope that this review will be help some students out there 😀
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Synergizing microfluidics and plasmonics: advances, applications, and future directions
In the past decade, interest in nanoplasmonic structures has experienced significant growth, owing to rapid advancements in materials science and the evolution of novel nanofabrication techniques. The...
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
Hello BlueSky community 👋 You can now find us @natprodreports.rsc.org Join the Natural Product Reports conversation for high impact, critical reviews in natural products research and related areas #ChemSky #natprod
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Russell Cox Chem @russellcoxchem.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Super review of the sorbicillinoids at NPR... pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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The fungal natural product class of the sorbicillinoids: structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis, and synthesis
Covering 1948 up to October 2024Sorbicillinoids are a growing class of natural products (NPs) that stem from a variety of fungi including members of the orders Hypocreales and Eurotiales. This compoun...
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Ivan Huc Group @akhuc.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
We are pleased to announce that our communication on protein recognition with helical aromatic foldamers has been published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry! @roysocchem.bsky.social 🧪 A cornerstone for some of our current and future projects 👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Interrogating the potential of helical aromatic foldamers for protein recognition
A biotinylated helical aromatic oligoamide foldamer equivalent in size to a 24mer peptide was designed without any prejudice other than to display various polar and hydrophobic side chains at its surf...
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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Congratulations to my PhD student David Kormos on successfully defending his dissertation! Airborne Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Near Farms and Effectiveness of Ionization Against Airborne Bacteria in a Classroom pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... +1 more /1
David Kormos and Linsey Marr, post-defense
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites - Nat Prod Rep @natprodreports.rsc.org Review pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites
Covering: 2019 to 2024Secondary metabolites (SMs) are naturally occurring defense or signaling molecules that are also utilized as human and animal drugs, crop protection agents, and fine chemicals. C...
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The 41st RSC review on marine natural products pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Marine natural products
Covering: January to the end of December 2023 This review covers the literature published in 2023 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 582 citations (541 for the period January to December 2...
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Labour government appears to have dropped a Conservative pledge to place accessibility right at the heart of the new national body that will run Britain's railways.
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Anger after government appears to drop Tory plans to put accessibility at heart of new national rail body
Labour appears to have dropped the Conservative government’s pledge to place accessibility right at the heart of the new national body that will run the railways. Concerns were raised by The Associ…
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