by Lia Ludlam | Nov 28, 2018
If you’ve been on a prescription medication, you might have wondered why prescription drugs are so expensive. Finding a drug that treats a condition effectively without causing serious side effects requires an enormous number of research hours, as well as large...
by James Collard | Nov 26, 2018
Imagine hiking through the woods and stumbling upon a brand-new car—a car that’s just idling, waiting for someone to grip the wheel and tear out of the forest. Chemistry professor Dr. Paul Savage likens this example of a fortuitous find to the discovery of a...
by Lia Ludlam | Oct 25, 2018
The current methods for detecting bacterial infection in the blood and whether those bacteria are resistant to common antibiotics can sometimes take an entire day—which is more time than a patient with sepsis can afford. Dr. Adam Woolley from the chemistry department,...
by Angela Cava | Sep 19, 2018
Chemistry professor Daniel Austin recently received a prestigious international award for his developments in mass spectrometry. Click here to read...
by Phyllis Rosen | Sep 13, 2018
For chemistry professor Jeffrey Macedone, studying scorpions “turned this hairy, creepy little creature into a thing of beauty made by a Creator.” BYU Magazine’s new YouTube series, “A Thing of Beauty,” features BYU professors and...
