Reacción a "Reactions to Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless for click chemistry and its use in living organisms"

It has been a wonderful news to hear about the Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal y K. Barry Sharpless, for the development and applications of click chemistry! Bertozzi, in particular, founded the area of “bioorthogonal chemistry”, in which simple chemical tools (specific chemical reactions) are used to modify molecules in cells without altering the “normal functioning” of the particular system or cell. She is a pioneer of using chemistry to manipulate biology, for instance using bioorthogonal tools “visualize”, image and modify biomolecules, such as glycans (sugars) on the surface of our cells. Actually the impact of her work in glycobiology has been enormous.

She is an inspiration for many of us, not only for her ground breaking discoveries (such as the link between cancer and cell glycans) but also for the way she communicates them to specialized and general public.