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Highlights in Chemical Biology

Chemical biology news and research from across RSC Publishing.



Instant insights 2007


Highlights in Chemical Biology Instant insights, published in 2007

gut microbes

Instant insight: DNA hitchhikers

15 November 2007

Brian Jones and Julian Marchesi, of University College Cork in Ireland, take a closer look at the genetic swap shops in our midst.


Carbon monoxide

Instant insight: Don't blame the messenger

18 October 2007

Brian Mann and Roberto Motterlini react to carbon monoxide's bad press.


ICP-MS

Instant insight: 'Absolute' phosphorylation

21 September 2007

Elemental mass spectrometry is a high flier in the world of quantitative phosphoproteomics.


Gecko and DNA

Instant insight: Forces of attraction

20 August 2007

Outlining the role non-covalent interactions play in the structure, stability and functions of biomolecules.


Scientists using SORS to probe samples

Instant insight: Revealing the hidden depths

20 July 2007

Emerging spectroscopic techniques that promise to change cancer and bone disease diagnosis.


Close-up of a hair strand

Instant insight: Hair is the news

19 June 2007

Putting hair under the microscope.


An ABC transporter complex

Instant insight: Essential metals

21 May 2007

Xiangyang Liang, Dominic Campopiano and Peter Sadler at the University of Edinburgh, UK, examine how and why metals cross membranes.


Bio-ink particles fused into a cylindrical shape

Instant insight: Organ printing

23 April 2007

Glenn Prestwich of the University of Utah, US, explains how to build living structures with self-assembling cells.


Bacteria migrating toward a point where a function (concentration of a ligand) is a maximum

Instant insight: Living computers

15 March 2007

Hao Song, Cheemeng Tan, and Lingchong You, at Duke University in Durham, US, explain how cells can solve problems.


Protein filaments (shown in green) attached to the extracellular environment at cell-matrix contacts (shown in red).

Instant insight: The soft cell

06 February 2007

Ulrich Schwarz, soft matter researcher at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, explains why softness matters for cells.


Zebrafish embryo

Instant insight: Probing expression

22 January 2007

Ivan Dmochowski and XinJing Tang, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, US, shed light on gene regulation.


Spider

Instant insight: Venomous drugs?

15 December 2006

Setting the record straight about spiders...