{"id":371385,"date":"2026-03-06T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371385\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:31:09","slug":"chemistry-in-pictures-glowing-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371385\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry in Pictures: Glowing with pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-content\">\u201cIt looks like a tiny solar system. But instead of planets, it\u2019s a snapshot of my research journey in the lab,\u201d says Sadiya Tanga, a chemistry graduate student at Ashoka University. Tanga\u2019s work has focused on a type of drug molecule called proteolysis-targeting chimeras, or PROTACs for short. PROTACs have two active ends, one that grabs a target protein and another that grabs a molecular flag that tells the cell to break down the whole assembly as waste. \u201cEach glowing flask and sphere holds a different compound I worked hard to design and synthesize,\u201d Tanga says. \u201cThe colors you see are from parts of the molecules that shine under UV light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\">Submitted by Sadiya Tanga<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\">Do science. Take pictures. Win money.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/collections\/chemistry-in-pictures\/submit-your-photo.html\" shape=\"rect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enter our photo contest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/sections\/chemistry-in-pictures.html\" shape=\"rect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more Chemistry in Pictures.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/staffDirectory\/Craig-Bettenhausen.html\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-craig-bettenhausen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        Chemical &amp; Engineering News<\/p>\n<p>          ISSN 0009-2347<\/p>\n<p>          Copyright \u00a9<br \/>\n            2026 American Chemical Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt looks like a tiny solar system. But instead of planets, it\u2019s a snapshot of my research journey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,12812,46553,19,17,171599,133,74313],"class_list":["post-371385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-eire","tag-fluorescence","tag-glow","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lab-life","tag-science","tag-synthesis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116183661752702308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}