{"id":232895,"date":"2026-03-09T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chemistry-in-pictures-glowing-with-pride"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:19:27","slug":"chemistry-in-pictures-glowing-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chemistry-in-pictures-glowing-with-pride","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry in Pictures: Glowing with pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemistry-in-pictures-glowing-with-pride2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}