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The plant with the spider-like poison – Australia’s giant stinging tree

Deep in the rainforests of eastern Australia, all along New South Wales up to south-eastern Queensland, one can find Dendrocnide excelsa, the giant stinging tree. Key to its name, the stinging tree possesses thin, felt-like hairs on its leaves that, in reality, act as densely... click to read more

  • Ralph Bulanadi | PhD Student at Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Peptide
Australia
Neurotoxin
Plants
Views 6090
Reading time 4 min
published on Apr 6, 2021
Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule

A seemingly simple question — Are two objects the same or different? — frequently has a complicated answer. For chemists the objects are molecules, and over the years we have refined our ability to make same/different distinctions as we learn more about molecular structures. Molecules... click to read more

  • Eric J. N. Helfrich | Professor at Institute of Molecular Bio Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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  • Jon Clardy | Professor at Institute of Molecular Bio Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Natural Products
Molecular Shape
Peptide
Stereochemistry
Total Synthesis
Views 3493
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Feb 19, 2021