With near-atomic precision, a USC Dornsife team of scientists visualized for the first time how opioids and the antidote Narcan engage a key brain receptor, offering insight that could lead to improved pain treatments and overdose reversal.
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Support from USC Dornsife alumni enables graduate students to attend science conferences and present their research to the broader scientific community.
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Research led by Stephen Bradforth explores how quantum entanglement might influence the outcome of ultrafast molecular events.
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Anna Krylov, USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, has recently been inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious recognition of her influential work in the field of theoretical chemistry. She is one of three faculty members in the Department of Chemistry to receive this immense honor.