Practical Fragments

Cambridge Healthtech Institute held its annual Discovery on Target ( DoT ) meeting in Boston last week. Attendance may have set a record, wi...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer…   In our small, annual counterweight to Yeats’ “ mere a...

The winter solstice is behind us in the Northern Hemisphere, which means 2022 is rapidly drawing to a close. As we have done for the past d...

The biotech industry rightly prizes speed: every day people die of diseases we are trying to prevent or cure. And developments can indeed ha...

An old curse runs, "may you live in interesting times." And 2020 has been interesting indeed. Amid all the tumult, Practical Fragm...

The year ends, and with it the awkward teenage phase of the twenty-first century. As we have done since 2012 , we're using this last p...

Practical Fragments has occasionally highlighted examples of metal-binding fragments. Strong interactions between low-molecular weight co...

As 2018 recedes into history, we are using this last post of the year to do what we have done since 2012 – review notable events along wit...