All Drug discovery and development articles
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IdeasChemists’ role in the fight against disease
Use these tips and resources to link UN sustainable development goal 3 and biology topics on health and disease to your lessons on anticancer drugs
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Feature
Designing cancer drugs
How screening is used to develop targeted therapies that improve the lives of cancer patients
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Resource
Cisplatin and drug design | 16–18 years
Assess learners’ understanding of the mechanism of cisplatin as an anticancer drug with these examination-style questions.
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Interview
‘Science doesn’t always work in the way you expect it to’
Meet Lee Goodwin, a bioanalytical chemist who helps unpick what our bodies do with the drugs they are given, such as antivirals as treatment for Covid-19
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Job profile
Associate scientist, pharmaceuticals
Holly develops new medicines at a global pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca alongside completing her degree apprenticeship
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Resource
Essential chemistry of pharmaceuticals
Explore the role of chemistry in drug discovery with this worksheet
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Feature
Why you need A-level chemistry to study pharmacy
Why chemistry is essential to understand and manufacture safe, effective medicines
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Why you need A-level chemistry to study dentistry
Understanding enamel, fillings and anaesthetics requires chemistry knowledge
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Feature
When experiments don't go to plan
From Bakelite to Super glue, how unintended results can be useful
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Self-defence classes for our immune system
Andy Extance finds out how vaccines help people fight off germs without getting ill
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Antibiotics: solving an evolving problem
Includes curriculum-linked resources to use in your classroom
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Opinion
Students don’t appreciate what chemistry can do
Is this causing the dip in applications to university chemistry courses?
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News
Targeting manganese fights the flu
A tweak allows a promising flu-fighting compound to latch onto both of the manganese atoms at the heart of a flu enzyme
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Resource
New drugs for old: pharmaceuticals
This is a problem-based case study looks at the isolation, identification and synthesis of a pharmaceutical drug. Students are involved in screening natural herbal remedies for their active ingredients.
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News
Route to fiendishly complex marine molecule cut in half
Shortcut to promising natural product already in Alzheimer’s and HIV trials
