A ROLE FOR CHEMISTRY IN CELL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Chemical biology has emerged as a new scientific discipline to change the way scientists approach and study the interface between chemistry, biology and physics. This report is a selection of papers appeared in the year 2004, on journals belonging to the bio-medical area. The authors have reviewed those papers where the contribution of chemists, and in particular of organic chemists, is wide and important. The aim of this review is to highlight some interesting subjects and to consider what skills chemists are requested to operate, in the field of cell biology and medicine