Findings

Drugs from Deep Down

Brian Bachmann ventures into caves and peers into Petri dishes in search of new or overlooked compounds that could make useful drugs. As a synthetic chemist, he wants to uncover the secrets of how life creates its vast array of active molecules.

Mesmerized by Metals
Using special fluorescent sensors, Amy Palmer tracks zinc and other metals in living cells to study their role in brain signaling, bacterial infection and diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and prostate cancer.