Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Medicine
Pharmaceutical chemists have a trick when they’re designing a drug and want to make it easier for the body to take up without metabolic side effects: they might add a quaternary center—a carbon atom bonded to four other carbon atoms. The trouble is, such centers are...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Medicine, National Laboratories
The University of Chicago’s Microbiome Research Symposium last month brought together experts from UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the Marine Biological Laboratory to meet with students, postdoctoral scholars and early-career scientists. Participants...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Medicine, National Laboratories, Physical Sciences
This year brought us discoveries, developments and advances that uncovered new knowledge and informed fields of research. In 2018, we saw the launch of a named probe into the sun, the growth of a quantum technology hub, the critical first particle tracks in a new...
