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Education is a central mission of universities. Emphasizing creative and passionate teaching by all academic staff is essential for maintaining educational quality while supporting vigorous research.
Understanding how organisms measure and respond to space and time at a physical and chemical level is at the heart of a mechanistic understanding of life.
High-throughput screening has become increasingly important in academic research over the last decade. The diversity of chemical and biological space being probed by academic chemical screening, coupled with the public reporting of results, has created an important new resource of data for chemical biologists.
Natural products research focuses on the chemical properties, biosynthesis and biological functions of secondary metabolites. As our scientific understanding of all things 'natural' is rapidly expanding, we should also make time to communicate the subtleties of chemical distinctions to the public.
Nature Chemical Biology is committed to enhancing interdisciplinary communication and features online content to increase the accessibility of chemical information for our readers.
Scientists from across the chemistry and biology communities often have divergent ideas of what constitutes mechanistic insight into a biological system. Science that forges a middle ground between these disciplines offers the best way forward for chemical biologists.
The aging of the professoriate has raised questions about how to support productive faculty members late in their careers while integrating the vitality of youthful scientists.
