chemistry

Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, will speak at UCLA on June 1 about new optical imaging technologies for biology.

Findings suggest that similar isotopic signatures could exist for many biological processes, including some that are difficult to observe with current tools.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

UCLA researchers found that although Prozac and Lexapro were thought to work the same way, the medications did not produce the same long-term changes in anxiety behavior.

Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will present a chemistry seminar Monday, April 21.

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has managed to find new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his no-nonsense organic chemistry class.

“I’ve always been interested in carrying out experiments to try to understand how things work,” said professor Richard Kaner, who knew from childhood that he wanted to become a scientist.