RSC Chemical Biology
@rscchembio
A gold open-access journal focused on innovative chemical biology tools and their application in exploring and manipulating molecular biological processes. 🌐 Website: rsc.li/rscchembio Published by @rsc.org
📢 Don't miss this Communication from Shuo Han and his team introducing NovaID: a HyperNova-based compact and versatile proximity labeling platform! ➡️ Read more here: doi.org/10.1039/d6cb... 👏 Shuo Han is one of our 2026 Emerging Investigators... Stay tuned to hear more!
RSC Chemical Biology is delighted to be partnering with the #SBNP conference. The final deadline is closing on Tuesday 11th August 2026. If your considering joining the conference register now. Click here for more information: https://bit.ly/4bHu5Q7
📢 Don't miss your chance to register for the 10th RSC BMCS Fragment-based Drug Discovery Meeting happening from 14-16th September in Cambridge at Churchill College, University of Cambridge! #Fragments2026 ➡️ Find out more and register here! www.rscbmcs.org/even... www.eventsforce.net/...
🔥 Don't miss this HOT review from #RSCChemBio on mechanism-based HDAC inhibitors! ➡️ Read the article by David Christianson here! doi.org/10.1039/d6cb... #EnzymeInhibition
Catch up on the latest news from RSC Chemical Biology in the journal newsletter, available on our blog at the link below. Signing up to receive new issues by email at rsc.li/alerts blogs.rsc.org/cb/july-2026...
We're pleased to share that Professor Boris Vauzeilles has joined our Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Prof. Vauzeilles is a CNRS Research Director and Director of the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN, CNRS, France). Find out more on our web page: www.rsc.org/people/boris...
✨ "The VanVeller lab is exploring amidine peptide-backbone modifications. By replacing the native amide with an amidine they directly alter a key site of protease recognition while preserving side-chains necessary for activity at opioid receptor GPCRs." ➡️ doi.org/10.1039/d6cb...
📢Issue 7 of RSC Chemical Biology is now online and #OpenAccess ✨ Find articles on peptidomimetic GABRAP ligands, artificial nicotinamide cofactors, chlorophyll biosynthetic enzymes and much more! ➡️ Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/cb/issu...
📢 Don't miss Toru Komatsu and Yasuteru Urano's newest review in #RSCChemBio where they 'revisit the past to discover the new.' ✨ Their review explores how a century of classical chemistry continues to inspire modern enzyme-responsive fluorescent probes. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/d6cb...
We're pleased to announce that PhD candidate Vanessa Rogga of the Tate laboratory at Imperial College London is the winner of our best poster award at this year's Gordon Research Conferences meeting on Induced Proximity! Please join us in congratulating Vanessa. www.grc.org/induced-prox...
📢 Call for Abstracts is OPEN! 📢 Join the GEM-APPICOM Joint Meeting in Lyon (Nov 3–6, 2026) for "At the Confluence of Biomembrane Sciences." 🧬🔬 From membrane proteins to computational biophysics—we want your research! ⏳ Deadline: July 1 🔗 gem-2026.sciencescon... #GEM2026 #Biophysics #Science
📢 Welcome to Issue 6 of #RSCChemBio! Read our cover articles using hybrid computational-experimental approach to probe acyl-carrier protein sequence diversity and RNA-amiloride binding respectively! doi.org/10.1039/D5CB... doi.org/10.1039/D6CB... ➡️Find the issue here! pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
Congratulations to Steven Bensinger, Keriann Backus and colleagues — winners of RSC Chemical Biology’s Outstanding Early Career Research Award for their work on STING-sterol interactions. 📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1039/D4CB... Read more about the winners on our blog: blogs.rsc.org/cb/oec...
Welcome to issue 5 of #RSCChemicalBiology Don’t miss the editorial to our newest themed collection, our cover article on iron-sulfur cluster function and biogenesis as well as manuscripts on artificial nucleic acids, lipoprotein trafficking, DNA damage repair and more! pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
Submissions to our upcoming themed collection on Epigenetics and epitranscriptomics are now open! Submissions can be made through to 30 September 2026. Find out more on our blog post: : blogs.rsc.org/cb/call-cbep...
📣Registration deadline approaching soon! #RSCChemBio is pleased to support the 2026 Texas Chemical Biology Conference 📅18-19 May, 2026 📍University of Texas at Dallas, United States 🔗www.txchembio.org Register by 1 May to secure your place 🔐
Have you registered for the RSC Chemical biology symposium 2026? This year's meeting takes place on 11 May 2026, in Burlington House, London. Registration closes on 27 April - don't miss your opportunity to participate! Find out more and register here: www.rsc.org/events/d...
We're pleased to share that our themed collection on Endocytosis and cellular delivery with RSC Pharmaceutics is now online! Read the collection at rsc.li/cb-pm-endo, and find out more at our blog post here: blogs.rsc.org/cb/xxe...
Don't miss your chance to take part in the RSC Chemical biology symposium 2026, taking place at Burlington House, London! Early bird registration closes in 2 weeks, on 6 April. Find out more and register here: www.rsc.org/events/d...
✨Issue 3 of RSC Chemical Biology is online and #openaccess! This issue features articles on DNA-targeting invader probes, a chemically inducible fission yeast bio-processor, riboswitches, molecular clocks and much more! 👉Read the full issue now: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2026 with standout women researchers at the chemistry-biology interface. Explore our new collection: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour... Contact us if you have a recent #RSCChemBio publications to add to this collection! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
New Advance Article introduces visible‑light cleavable crRNAs that enable precise control of Cas9 activity, offering rapid on/off switching and reduced off‑target effects, advancing experimental control and therapeutic safety in CRISPR applications. ✨Get the full story: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB...
📢 New Advanced Article from #RSCChemBio 👇 Warren, Taga, Kräutler et al. explore the gene repression activity of AdoRhbl in B₁₂-utilizing microorganisms, establishing its potential as a multifunctional antibiotic. 👉 Read the full story here: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB...
Could covalent tracers mean faster measurement of target occupancy and clear compound priorities? This Advance Article from J Wong et al introduces a high-throughput assay that quantifies target occupancy of covalent compounds using MK2 inhibitors as a model. ➡️Full story: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB...
✨Research spotlight on targeted protein degraders: from macrocyclic peptides to nanoparticle-based delivery systems, there is a wealth and diversity of PROTACs research published in #RSCChemBio each year. Find the highlights from 2025 on our blog now: 🔗blogs.rsc.org/cb/202... #PROTAC #RSCChemBio
Could a simple design principle unlock more powerful #DNA-targeting technologies?🧬New #openaccess Review from P Hrdlicka and M Everly explores the discovery, molecular design, and applications of DNA-targeting Invader probes. 👉Get the full story here: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB...
On the back cover of RSCChemBio Issue 2: Lina Cui et al. explore "Tuning the efficiency of molecular probes via quinone methide-based in situ labeling" ✨ Read the full story now: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB... 👉 Get the full issue here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
On the front cover of RSCChemBio Issue 2: Oliver Seitz et al. introduce "DNA-programmed bispecific peptide assemblies for delivering cytotoxic payload to cells expressing EGFR and MET receptor"🧬 Read the full story now: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB... 👉 Get the full issue here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
📢Latest issue of #RSCChemBio is online and #openaccess This month's issue features a profile of our 2025 #EmergingInvestigators, late-stage peptide modifications, genome mining of the actinomycetes landscape, and much more! 👉 Get the full issue here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
📢New review from Srijani Sarkar and Niren Murthy! "Recent developments in the delivery of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs)" covers everything from the early approaches and their limitations to the potential of future advances in PNA-based therapeutics. 🧬Read the full article: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB...