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A DNA nanodevice for mapping sodium at single-organelle resolution go.nature.com/3Zqfl04

Very happy to share our article in Chemical Communications on enzymatic DNA synthesis with artificial trinucleotides. Congrats to all esp. Nazarii SABAT 🇺🇦! Great collaboration with Roche Structural Biology-Chemistry at Institut Pasteur Institut Pasteur, since 1887 CNRS Chimie pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Exciting PhD opportunity, joint with the wonderful Melanie M. Britton, develop new MRI contrast agents based on artificial metalloproteins warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…… Contact us directly by email for more information

Out now in Chem, James Gallagher Ben Roberts 🇪🇺 & Stefan Borsley report a catenane that, like enzymes, accelerates catalysis by conformational selection. Gating in fastest catalytic pathway causes directional rotation to arise as emergent behavior tinyurl.com/3yahupa2

Good to go to Bristol with #teamnucleicacids doing our EPSRC CDT interview and wearing our matching DNA badges. Mike Hannon Nick Lench NATA - Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator The rest of the Birmingham/Sheffield/UCL team cheering us on virtually Michael Booth Nick Turner Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO Jim Tucker

#OnTheCover Interrogating Aptamer Chemical Space Through Modified Nucleotide Substitution Facilitated by Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (M. Hollenstein et al.) Hollenstein group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cb…

For folks without access behind the paywall, here's the free, read-only, version of the James Gallagher Stefan Borsley & Ben Roberts 🇪🇺 review on 'Ratcheting Synthesis': rdcu.be/dtIrr. Or you can email me for the PDF 😃

Great to see Timothy A. Barendt kicking off MASC2023 Birmingham at UoBChemistry!

Booking is open for the 8th Cambridge Symposium on Nucleic Acids. Fantastic lineup of speakers!

Congratulations to Ana Mikic and Caecille Benckendorff for best posters at the Nucleic Acids Forum #NAF2024

In celebration of the life and work of #BenjaminZephaniah have a look at the the Zephaniah Forest #65trees initiative led by Birmingham TreePeople birminghamtreepeople.org.uk/the-zephaniah-…

Many congratulations to Stuart Arkless, who has retired after an incredible 55 years at the University! Stuart joined in 1969 as a technician in the Chemistry department. He went on to work in both teaching & research and on the opening of our new Molecular Sciences building 👏

Delighted to have our recent work on dual responsive foldamers published in Chem. Eur. J. Thanks to Alex Davis, Jack Dismorr, Louise Male and Jim Tucker (Jim Tucker) for all the hard work! doi.org/10.1002/chem.2…

#CoverFeature Dual, Photo-Responsive and Redox-Active Supramolecular Foldamers (ChemEurJ 62/24) (Sarah J. Pike Sarah Pike and co-workers Jim Tucker UoBChemistry) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Congratulations to Sam Jones (Sam Jones) who has been awarded a prestigious #ERCCoG from European Research Council (ERC) to develop the next generation of antivirals! 🎉🎉 birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/pres…

Budding molecular magicians are invited to apply for a 4-year PhD studentship on catalysis-driven molecular machinery (e.g. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…; nature.com/articles/s4158…; etc) available in my group, autumn 2025 start: tinyurl.com/kdw6mtcr. Position open until filled😃

Sir Fraser Stoddart FRS, internationally renowned Nobel prize winning supramolecular chemist, b. 24th May 1942 - d. 30th December 2024. Our thoughts are very much with Fraser's family, friends, and members of the scientific community that he has supported throughout his career.

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise go.nature.com/4hAISfn

To mark International Women’s Day five current and former female colleagues were invited to discuss their life experiences, opportunities and challenges encountered along their career journeys, with over 100 attendees including academics, support staff and PG and UG students.

Prof Michael Hannon and co-workers have published 'Switching On Supramolecular DNA Junction Binding Using a Human Enzyme' in Angewandte Chemie which you can read here doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…