Instant insight: Digging deep with microtools

01 December 2008

Jaime Castillo, Maria Dimaki and Winnie E. Svendsen explain how micro and nano manipulation techniques are helping researchers understand biological systems

Interview: Discovering the Texas molecule

03 December 2008

Jonathan Sessler talks to Michael Brown about what motivated him to discover texaphyrin and about the aims of the companies he co-founded

Lasers draw protein pictures

30 October 2008

Scientists have recreated a famous painting on the microscale using a new protein patterning technique

Shine a light for separation

07 November 2008

UK scientists have used light to separate complex chemical mixtures

Drug delivery on target

17 November 2008

A peptide found in tumour cells can trigger the release of drugs from a novel nanocarrier, claim South Korean scientists

Fingerprints show their dark side

04 November 2008

A new fingerprinting method could help forensic scientists detect prints on almost any surface

Sensors go with the flow

04 November 2008

Blind cave fish inspire scientists to develop a flow sensor

Magnetic solution for sticky problem

07 November 2008

Belgian scientists have discovered a new method to stop nanoparticles sticking together

Scaled-down soldering

27 October 2008

Japanese researchers have created a permanent metal link between two nanowires

Double debut

This month sees the debut of two highly interdisciplinary new journals from RSC Publishing: Integrative Biology and Metallomics