John Mann

Review
In retrospect: from the pill to the pen
2014-11-03T00:00:00
Science and fiction
Feature
Targeting breast cancer
2014-03-28T00:00:00
Tamoxifen has been treating breast cancer for 40 years, but few would have predicted how much this drug would contribute to saving lives, writes John Mann
Review
The importance of chemistry
2011-11-16T10:36:06
Chemicals for life and living
Podcast
LSD - Lysergic acid diethylamide
2011-10-12T00:00:00
The time- and sense-distorting chemistry of LSD
Feature
No laughing matter
2011-05-31T13:38:37
Had it not been for nitrous oxide's subversion as a recreational folly, its utility as an anaesthetic could have been uncovered much earlier, as John Mann discovers
Podcast
Taxol
2010-10-13T00:00:00
A crucial compound in chemotherapy - John Mann explores the anticancer drug Taxol
Feature
The birth of the pill
2010-08-27T14:45:00
Fifty years after its birth, John Mann reports on the conception and evolution of the contraceptive pill
News
Can we halt the flow of new designer drugs?
2010-03-23T13:00:00
Could the dangers of 'legal high' mephedrone have been predicted? Of course they could, says John Mann
Feature
Design for life
2009-10-28T10:48:00
A new drug for treating prostate cancer, developed by rational design and currently making its way through clinical trials, could improve the prognosis, says John Mann