Instant insights 2007
Highlights in Chemical Biology Instant insights, published in 2007

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.

Instant insight: Don't blame the messenger
18 October 2007
Brian Mann and Roberto Motterlini react to carbon monoxide's bad press.

Instant insight: 'Absolute' phosphorylation
21 September 2007
Elemental mass spectrometry is a high flier in the world of quantitative phosphoproteomics.

Instant insight: Forces of attraction
20 August 2007
Outlining the role non-covalent interactions play in the structure, stability and functions of biomolecules.

Instant insight: Revealing the hidden depths
20 July 2007
Emerging spectroscopic techniques that promise to change cancer and bone disease diagnosis.
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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.

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.

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.

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.



