All Biological chemistry articles – Page 4
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ResourceEnzymes and jellies
If you add certain fresh fruit such as pineapple to jelly, it will not set. The task in this resource is to investigate why.
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OpinionStudents don’t appreciate what chemistry can do
Is this causing the dip in applications to university chemistry courses?
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SoundbiteA state secret leak is helping to solve the Skripal poisoning
The role of scientist whistle-blowers from Russia
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ResourceChallenging Plants: Fertilisers - Practicals
Nutrients essential for plant growth are obtained naturally from soil or other growing media. However, supplies become depleted and fertilisers are needed to increase the availability of nutrients to plants. An understanding of chemical changes is used to making fertilisers, often designed to meet specific requirements such as particular nutrient ...
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ResourceThe chemistry of sports drinks
Learn about the chemistry and science behind sports drinks and the effects on the body. Find out how chemists have contributed to the improvement of athletic performance.
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ResourceThe chemistry of sports and energy drinks
Many people think that energy drinks and sports drinks are the same thing but in fact they work in very different ways.
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ResourceChemistry now: chemistry and sport
This deals with the chemistry of aerobic and anaerobic respiration in the context of athletics and looks at how athletes can manipulate the chemistry of this process
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Biosensors
Find out how scientists at the material science laboratory, QMUL, develop biosensors to enhance sport performance.
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ResourceChemistry and Sport - Athletics: 400m
Discover the chemistry behind one of the toughest athletic events - the 400m race.
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ResourceThe effect of cooking on vitamin C in cabbage | 16–18 years
Plan a titration experiment to discover more about the changes in vitamins and enzymes during cooking. Includes kit list and safety instructions
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ResourceMaking Medicines
An interactive resource from ABPI covering the process of making of medicines from research and development to to manufacture.
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ResourceOutreach: speedy star jumps
An activity that allows the collection of data to test whether sports drinks make a difference to performance during short, high intensity exercise.
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ResourceOn This Day - Mar 19 : Walter Haworth was born
Besides determining the structures of many sugars, his most famous work was discovering the structure of Vitamin C and creating its first artificial synthesis – work which earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937.
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ResourceYou are what you ate
This C/PBL resource looks at the metabolic causes and incidence of obesity in the cultural and social environment within which students, tutors, and institutions operate. Students are presented with a problem, the growing incidence of obesity, in a real life context in which the core subject, metabolic chemistry, plays a ...
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ResourceChemistry's interfaces: nutrition
This C/PBL resource is an introduction to some of the most important aspects of chemical biology. Its introduces students to a number of important chemical structures which play major biological roles within human metabolism.
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ResourceAdvanced Medicinal Chemistry
This course material gives real-life examples of drug discovery and information on the drug discovery process through an industrial context, produced by Dr Ray Leslie of NTU and AstraZeneca.