Researchers have discovered a biosynthetic pathway that makes amino acids containing terminal alkynes. Because such functional groups are rare in natural products, they provide a handle for chemistry ...

Tracking changes in the cellular composition of lipids is essential to understanding metabolic and signaling processes. Most of the studies so far have used radioactive 3 H-, 14 C- or 32 P-labeled ...

A collaborative academic-industry research team in the U.K. has devised a method to convert the terminal triple bond of an alkyne into a diester with the two ester groups at opposite ends of the ...