Henning Hopf, Germany, reviews the book "The Last Alchemist in Paris & Other Curious Tales from Chemistry" by Lars Öhrström

The Last Alchemist in Paris

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Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Catching Leukemic Stem Cells
Two chemicals allow leukemic stem cells to be grown in vitro and will help the development of new antileukemic drugs

247th ACS Meeting
Impressions of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas

Why Dark Chocolate is Healthy
Bacteria from the gut ferment dark chocolate to produce healthful antioxidants

Honey Fights Antibiotic Resistance
Studies to identify compounds responsible for the unusual ability that honey has to fight infections

Naphthyridines as Novel BET Family Bromodomain Inhibitors
1,5-Naphthyridine derivatives optimized as bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) domain inhibitors with good cell activity

Fighting Cerebral Malaria
The antidiabetic drug rogislitazone is a valuable tool to treat a deadly complication of malaria

Long-Term Measurements with Ionic Liquid Electrodes
Ionic liquid gel-assisted electrodes enable measurements in electrophysiological recordings over long periods

More Ubiquitin, Less Cancer
A selective inhibitor of a deubiquitinating complex sensitizes cancer cells to the chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin