Editorial: Anything on the Scope? Chemical Biology and More

Chemical biology continues to be at the heart of scientific achievement. In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for their work on Gprotein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). This work, and the efforts of chemists, structural biologists and others that followed, has ultimately transformed, even saved, many lives the world over (see our special issue on GPCRs (Issue 10, 2002), which features a Full Paper from Kobilka—ChemBioChem 2002, 3, 993–998). Modern science is a collaboration of the disciplines, and studies at the interface of biology and chemistry—the very heart of ChemBioChem’s scope—have always made important contributions to mankind’s understanding of nature, and have again been deservedly recognized.