Professor Ken Houk has collaborated with the Professor Martin Schmeing (McGill University) group to reveal a novel mechanism for peptide biosynthesis.  In an accelerated publication in Nature, the Schmeing group’s […]

New research by Professor Irene Chen’s group and NASA collaborators, focused on structures that could have been around during the RNA world, suggests RNA did not initially have a predisposed […]

A new paper titled “Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids” by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Zhong Wan and co-authors, recently published in Nature, introduces an exciting advancement […]

Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future […]

A new study by UCLA organic chemists shows how to create several types of molecules that violate Bredt’s rule, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs). Many modern textbooks and online resources […]

Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in a UC Newsroom article about […]

On October 29, 2024, the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry launched a SPARK fundraising campaign to raise seed funding for new lab purchases for our two campuswide, state-of-the-art core facilities […]

A team of UCLA researchers led by Professor Keriann Backus and graduate students Ashley R. Julio and Flowreen Shikwana has shed new light on the functional consequences of cysteine-reactive compounds […]