What an amazing week working with our Summer Science Camp students! We did everything from aspirin synthesis to NMR, TLC, and antimicrobial bioassays! 💊⚗️🧫🦠👩‍🔬 Here's what the students said about #VR Special thanks to Lana Hébert Jesse LeBlanc Derek Wilson Nanome

What future would you like to work on?

Four years after the discovery of phosphine in the clouds around Venus prompted excitement, and doubts, we have new confirmation of the chemical that might signal the presence of life on the planet, Rebecca Trager reports. chemistryworld.com/news/controver…

LOVE how specific this fine is!! 😆😆

Why are all proteins ‘left-handed’? New theory could solve origin of life mystery science.org/content/articl…

If you understand this reference, you are one of us.

Here's AI helping us solve one of history's most enduring mysteries 😁😆

Happy Birthday PDB, announced #OTD in 1971 In Nature New Biology. Today we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the Protein Data Bank and the PDB depositor community, and congratulate the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awardees rcsb.org/news/feature/6…

How Starship Will Get Us to Mars youtube.com/shorts/4nR718r… via YouTube

Here's our new promo video for the YorkU - Science at York University Huge thanks to the amazing communications team for putting this together! Looks awesome!🤩 Also, super excited to see our VR classroom featured in the video 👍

🍂NEW VIDEO🍂 All through Autumn, trees race against time to recycle their chlorophyll--and basically everything else in their leaves. But why go through all this effort? The answers are honestly mind-blowing: rendered in #blender3d using Brady Johnston's #molecularnodes

Watching Elon Musk speech at some rally...Totally mind-boggling! He's a BRILLIANT intellectual who says the world is UNDERpopulated. He says all people on the planet would fit in an area of NYC, but COMPLETELY ignores the area/volume that's needed to sustain their lifestyles.

Are LLMs a dead end?? 🤔😮 arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/wha…

My students and I discuss this in so many of my courses that I have to share this prediction from the pioneer (or villain) himself! 🧬🧬

Today's milestone: the agility of C-3PO reached ✅

China clearly sees the potential of proteomics and is about to place a gigantic bet on it; multi-billion dollar and 30 years!!! All the better for the advancement of science and health. We contributed to the white paper out now in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Last exams are finished and the campus is enjoying a quiet and snowy evening ❄️❄️❄️

Hmmm...really hoping this is not the composition of these pills 🫣🫣🫣

Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences® has bred what it calls 'woolly' mice. The creatures had multiple genes edited to grow shaggy coats that resemble those of woolly mammoths, in a stepping stone to hopefully lead to the de-extinction of key mammoth traits. chemistryworld.com/news/could-woo…

Explore our in-depth guide to the different types of degrees in biochemistry and the career options these will give you. #NCW2025 ow.ly/ElTs50V93ZI