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Instant insights 2008
Highlights in Chemical Biology Instant insights, published in 2008
Instant insight: The path of least resistance
07 November 2008
If targeting a virus directly promotes drug resistance, why not take a different approach?
Instant insight: Life at the extremes
11 November 2008
Miniature natural product libraries can be found in the most unexpected places
Instant insight: Bacterial nanoinjectors
26 September 2008
Roberto De Guzman explains how some of the world's most deadly pathogens use needles to inject their prey
Instant insight: Nature's fruitful chemistry
11 September 2008
Bernhard Kräutler and Thomas Müller explain why the changing colour of autumn leaves could be to our advantage
Instant insight: A golden future
14 August 2008
Ralph Sperling explains why gold is so precious to biological scientists
Instant insight: Beryllium: friend or foe?
16 July 2008
Brian Scott and colleagues examine the molecular basis of chronic beryllium disease
Instant insight: Chemical developments
16 June 2008
Ilya Shestopalov and James Chen look at how chemistry can be used to probe the earliest processes of life
Instant insight: Communicating with nature
14 May 2008
Bacteria have invented a potentially global language - quorum sensing. Kim Janda translates.
Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.
Instant insight: Reading the genome atlas
19 March 2008
Examining how the BLASTatlas tool can be used to spot the differences between similar genomes.
Instant insight: A fluorescent future
25 February 2008
B. H. Kim, Y. J. Seo and N. Venkatesan explain why quencher-free molecular beacons mean a brighter outlook for medicine.
Instant insight: Lab on a computer chip
12 February 2008
Computers are reshaping the way we explore the life sciences.
Instant insight: Think outside the cell
20 December 2007
Mark Wilson and Justin Yerbury at the University of Wollongong, Australia, examine proteins' extracellular activities.
