Drug synthesis – an example

Oxazolomycin A core. Looks pretty bad!

Drugs are exceedingly complicated molecules. The process of getting to know what a drug should look like is, in the words of Edward Holson, Director of Medicinal Chemistry at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, “like a chess game.”

Introducing.. Carbon Dioxide Fertilization

Bison in Yellowstone National Park. Copyright XiaoZhi Lim 2007

I have just been introduced to a whole new concept, coined the carbon dioxide fertilization effect, when I came across an article published last week in Nature Climate Change. Can carbon dioxide actually act as a fertilizer, helping plants to grow bigger and faster with higher levels in the atmosphere?