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Medicinal Chemistry and Biochemistry Book Releases

The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes book titles across a wide range of areas, in the area of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery we have recently published the following title:

Smart Materials in Drug Discovery, published in the RSC Smart Materials Series

Edited by Angel Concheiro and Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo.

Smart Materials for Drug Delivery brings together the recent findings in the area and provides a critical analysis of the different materials available and how they can be applied to advanced drug delivery systems.

Other forthcoming titles include:

Cara Sutton will be attending the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT) Congress in Copenhagen from the 28th to the 31st May 2013.

If you have an idea for a book or you would like to find out more about the RSC Drug Discovery, Issues in Toxicology or RSC Metallobiology Series please contact the medicinal chemistry Commissioning Editor, Cara Sutton.

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Global Change and Biosphere Interactions, University of York, 8th – 9th April

The RSC Issues in Environmental Science and Technology (Series Editors: R E Hester, University of York and R M Harrison, University of Birmingham) series tackles important environmental topics in response to the rapid growth of interest in this area and the need for authoritative reviews of such topics.

We’ve hand-picked recently published volumes including Soils and Food Security, Environmental Impacts of Modern Agriculture and Ecosystem Services to feature at the forthcoming Global Change and Biosphere Interactions scientific meeting. 

On 8-9 April 2013 the British Ecological Society (BES) and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) will be hosting a major international scientific meeting, Global Change and Biosphere Interactions as part of our centenary and celebrating the launch of YESI. 

Focused on sustainable solutions to global environmental change, the conference will feature major international speakers covering current advances in our understanding of the past, present and future consequences of human impacts on the earth system. Contributions will reach across disciplines, spanning physical, natural, social sciences and humanities to address the causes and consequences of global change and the implications for policy. There will be extensive opportunities for discussing the role of interdisciplinary research in understanding the impacts of global change and identifying new research which will allow us to mitigate and adapt to these impacts.  For details of the programme and speaker please see the BES website

The Monday afternoon’s programme is followed by a public lecture Professor Georgina Mace and wine reception (please indicate attendance at these when registering). 

Early bird registration is now open until Friday 8 March at £75 for BES and YESI members and £95 for non-members, which includes all sessions, lunch and refreshments over the two days.  Accommodation and dinner can be booked on top of this.  We are now also offering a day rate of £50. 

For further information please contact Amy Everard. 

British Ecological Society

British Ecological Society

 
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Bored of buying the same thing every year for Christmas?

Rather than buying socks this Christmas why not buy a copy of the Case of the Poisonous Socks instead? Or swap chocolates for a copy of Chocolate as Medicine? And for Winter Wonderland fun we’ve got a range of period table products including jigsaws, posters and visual elements trumps.

Visit our online shop for festive inspiration.

Live near Cambridge, UK? Visit our Books Winter Wonderland on Tuesday 4th December, 1 – 3 pm, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF.

This is your chance to fill your Christmas stockings and find out more about book publishing with a festive twist. Learn about the lifecycle of a book, how to publish a book and even pitch your ideas to one of our Commissioning Editors!

Join us for Christmas gift inspiration, festive treats and fun as well as games, competitions and prizes – contact us to book your place!

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Improving psychiatric medication, tablet by tablet…

The discovery and development of drugs to treat psychiatric disorders has had a profound influence on our understanding of these disorders and their pathology. However, the medicines being used today are far from perfect, some with serious side effects and others that are only partially effective. Despite recent advances, there is still an urgent need for more effective, safe and well-tolerated treatments.

This exciting and extensive professional reference text from the RSC Drug Discovery series covers the advances, challenges and future prospects in the discovery of drugs aimed at treating major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, addiction and autism.

Drug discovery for psychiatric disorders edited by Zoran Rankovic Matilda Bingham, Eric J. Nestler and Richard Hargreaves, and written by experts from both academia and industry, will be an essential text for medicinal chemists, pharmacologists and pharmaceutical scientists specialising in the development of pharmaceuticals for psychiatric disorders.

Learn more about this fascinating and rapidly developing field here.

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Double the Chemistry with Janus Particles

Like Janus, the two-faced Roman God peering into the past and the future, Janus particles have two sides with opposing physical properties such as hydrophobic versus hydrophilic.

Materials with different surfaces and chemistries are appealing for a number of applications, including drug delivery, but there isn’t one source covering Janus particles. Edited by pioneering experts in the field, Shan Jiang (MIT) and Steve Granick (Illinois), Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications is the first book to address the synthesis and uses of Janus particles and patchy colloids.         

See both sides of Janus particles – get the book today.

Interested in other smart materials? Read more about the new RSC Smart Materials Series.

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RSC Book author wins Nobel Prize

RSC Books would like to congratulate Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka who have today been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  The researchers have been awarded the prize for their studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.

If you would like to learn more about this fast developing area why not read Robert J Lefkowitz’s engaging historical perspective on G-protein-coupled receptors published in the RSC Drug Discovery book G Protein-Coupled Receptors: From Structure to Function.

Learn more here.

Interested in other books on drug discovery?  Read more in the RSC Drug Discovery Series.

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How do you find out the structure of a protein?

The last decade has resulted in many exciting developments in NMR spectroscopy techniques and methods. NMR spectroscopy is a highly versatile and widely used method in biomolecular science, particularly for the structural elucidation of nucleic acids, proteins and carbohydrates. 

The most recent title in the RSC Biomolecular Sciences series, Recent Developments in Biomolecular NMR edited by Marius Clore and Jennifer Potts, will cover these important and exciting developments in NMR, with a particular influence on their impact on biomolecular science. 

Covering all the major advances, and edited by leading spectroscopists, the book will form an essential text for researchers in both industry and academia.

Learn more about the impact of NMR here.

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Nanostructured biomaterials: tiny, but overcoming huge hurdles!

Overcoming biological barriers is one of the most important challenges when developing nanomaterials to deliver drugs, vaccines, genes and cellular therapies.  The most recent title published in the popular Drug Discovery Series tackles this issue, providing detailed and comprehensive discussion of the advances being made in this medically and commercially important area.

Nanostructure Biomaterials for Overcoming Biological Barriers edited by Maria Jose Alonso and Noemi S Csaba will be an essential text for pharmaceutical chemists working in industry and academia, but will also be highly relevant to any scientist working within drug development or therapeutic delivery research.

Find out how to overcome biological barriers here.

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It’s not the taking part that counts, it’s the chemistry!

Sporting fever is gripping the nation here in the UK and you may not have realised, but chemistry plays a vital role in sport.

From the outfits the athletes wear and equipment they use to ensuring fairness by detecting unscrupulous competitors that use performance enhancing drugs. Even in sporting arenas, its chemistry that has enabled the fabrication of Astroturf to prevent water logged pitches.

Read more about how chemistry is changing the game in John Emsley’s A Healthy Wealthy Sustainable World.

Don’t lose out- get your copy today.

Interested in similar titles? Learn more about how chemistry is improving the clothes you wear in The Chemistry of Textile Fibres.

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Making your Food Greener

Alternatives to Conventional Food ProcessingRising energy costs and a need for ‘greener’ methods of production has spurred on the development of alternative food processing techniques; however, the key to success for any new food process is maintaining food safety and quality.

For June’s RSC Book of the Month we’ve chosen Alternatives to Conventional Food Processing edited by Andrew Proctor, University of Arkansas, USA, which looks at the major alternative technologies that could be employed to reduce energy costs without compromising safety and quality.

The book provides an introduction to the principles of green chemistry and technologies, a discussion on the legal and policy issues in both the EU and the US concerning sustainable food processing and an overview of the main principles and applications of the major green technologies available to the food industry, including supercritical fluid pasteurization, membrane separations and ultrasonic food processing.

If you’re a graduate student, academic or food industrialist wanting to gain an understanding of various ‘green’ alternative food processing technologies and their role in the future of the food industry then this is the book for you.

Go greener  – access the content now.

Interested in similar titles on green chemistry? For more books, see the RSC Green Chemistry Series.

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