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An international team of researchers from the University of York, USA, Spain, Argentina, China, Denmark and Italy have successfully analysed dinosaur eggshell fragments to find ancient amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

York undergraduate student Amy McDermott was part of the 2nd place team in the recent 11th National Retrosynthesis Competition.

Chemists at the University of York will help train the next generation of chemists in the skills needed for a greener, more sustainable future through two Centres of Doctoral Training announced today.

Researchers in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have discovered a previously unreported class of enzymes, involved in the assembly of a sugar on the surface of a pathogenic bacteria that targets vulnerable patients in hospital.

A team of researchers from the Department of Chemistry have developed a new synthetic method which enables the simple synthesis of a wide range of biologically important cyclic molecules.

Congratulations to Year 4 undergraduate students Grace and Pip who have been awarded a Department of Chemistry “MChem Communicator of the Year” (McCOY) Prize.

Two recent research papers from York scientists have demonstrated the emission of indoor air pollution given off when cooking or cleaning indoors.

The United Nations Environment Programme has published a new specialised manual on green chemistry education based on research at the Department of Chemistry.