DeepMind AI’s Protein Folding Algorithm: AlphaFold
Recently, an AI powered software called AlphaFold has been making waves. For the first time, a software has been able to computationally predict 3D protein structure with accuracy close to that of current experimental methods. Why is this exciting? Read on to find out.
Cetirizine and Hay Fever
Allergy medications are some of the most prescribed medicines in the world, and one of the most common antihistamines, Cetirizine has some quite interesting chemistry.
I don’t know what to name this – Life update
What's this? You may wonder what I'm doing writing a post so different from my usual writing. This post acts as an update on my life, and also a message…
Penicillin antibiotics
A few weeks ago I came down with the flu This was the third time in 5 weeks I'd got the flu and I was starting to get frustrated. Then,…
Lithium ion batteries – Nobel Prize 2019
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded three chemists for their role in the chemistry behind making powerful and safe lithium ion batteries; John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham…