What Makes Your Pumpkin Grow?

What Makes Your Pumpkin Grow?

Environmentally conscious pumpkin growers can turn to a natural source of nitrogen and phosphorus in the form of urine to help improve yields.

Herbal Problem

Herbal Problem

Gingko biloba can have deleterious effects in people with epilepsy, increasing the frequency of seizures and interfering with their prescription medication.

Kicking Around Carbon

Kicking Around Carbon

New insights into fullerene chemistry have emerged from graphene research showing the soccerball-shaped molecules forming as graphene flakes lock together.

Targeted Identification

Targeted Identification

Gisbert Schneider and co-workers, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, report on target profile prediction to identify cross-activities of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) and farnesoid X receptor (FXR).

Structure-Based Ligand Design

Structure-Based Ligand Design

Freya Klepsch and Gerhard F. Ecker, University of Vienna, Austria, highlight the Impact of the recent mouse P-glycoprotein structure for structure-based ligand design.