Chris Serpell
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Chris Serpell
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Assoc. Prof. of Drug Discovery at UCL School of Pharmacy. Weird-y nucleic acids, chem. bio. of natural products. Catholic. https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/serpell/
The online version was doing it, probably the offline one has a way to turn it on somewhere. Old programmes on CD are the best. I'm getting a lot out of Worms Armageddon dug out of my parents' loft.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We've got a DNA-amyloid protein one in the works...
October 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It can Hoogsteen plenty, and it can do cool things with other molecules (like cyanuric acid), and nature thinks it's cool enough to stick a pile of them on the end of every RNA, as well as the whole ATP thing...
July 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I like G because it has a guanidine in it. But A's my favourite, because it's manages without oxygen.
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
...and "no safe dose" is a stupid thing to say when apparently there's even a safe dose of botulinum toxin
July 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Pretty much in agreement here. This may be chemist bias, but in the end, the only question I have about food is what stuff is actually in it.
Is UPF status a state function?
July 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It's true once you get above a certain temperature
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Perhaps the problem is not with the UK...
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You take that back about beer. Nowhere in the world is there anything as good as British ale.
June 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I feel for you.
June 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You should see people's faces when I tell them I'm an Associate Professor of Drug Discovery
June 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is the best
June 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM