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UV light is not all bad for DNA

A bright, sunny summer day, no sunscreen, and there it is: you got a sunburn. On their way to self-destruction, your skin cells’ DNA has been damaged by the solar ultraviolet (UV) light. Absorbing UV, some DNA bases undergo a chemical reaction, called photocyclization, linking... click to read more

Quentin Laurent | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University, Canada

Tyler Brown | PhD student at McGill University

DNA

Nanotechnology

chemistry

Reading time 3 min

published on Apr 26, 2023

New chemistry in unusual bacteria displays drug-like activity

Where do drugs come from? Most clinical molecules are either produced by chemists in a laboratory, or naturally in living organisms. While synthetic chemistry is a pipeline to drug discovery, nature-made molecules continue to have an important role as drug templates. Certain soil bacteria called... click to read more

Grace Dekoker | Undergraduate Research Assistant at Washington University in St. Louis

Joshua Blodgett | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis

bacteria

cancer

drug discovery

actinomycetes

chemistry

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Mar 21, 2023