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Highlights in Chemical Biology

Chemical biology news from across RSC Publishing.



Instant insights

Exciting areas of chemical biology research in an instant

Bioinformatics

Instant insight: Understanding biological data

03 February 2010

Ivano Bertini and Gabriele Cavallaro describe how bioinformatics can help make sense of the growing data on metals in biology


An array of water-in-oil droplets

Instant insight: Reactions in droplets

09 November 2009

Microfluidic droplets could become the reaction vessels of choice for much of biological research say Yolanda Schaerli and Florian Hollfelder


A tumour subjected to radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and antiangiogenesis

Instant insight: Triple therapy to target tumours

12 October 2009

Good things come in threes when it comes to cancer therapy


A biological cell in comparison with a synthetic mimic

Instant insight: Making synthetic cells

05 October 2009

Cell and organelle mimics typically perform one simple function. Frank Caruso and colleagues contemplate more complicated systems


Jellyfish Aequorea victoria

Instant insight: Lighting up biology

04 September 2009

Jellyfish have changed science. Marc Zimmer sheds light on GFP and the research behind 2008's Nobel Prize in Chemistry


Amyloid beta peptide

Instant insight: Alzheimer's: untangling the facts

06 August 2009

Cures for Alzheimer's may come from understanding its chemistry. Arvi Rauk examines the disease at the molecular level


A blue Morning glory flower

Instant insight: True blue flowers

14 July 2009

What makes a purple pigment blue? The answer could lead to the elusive blue rose says Kumi Yoshida


Norepinephrine in the binding site of an NET protein

Instant insight: Recognising antidepressants

10 June 2009

Kristian Strømgaard considers why a small change in an antidepressant can dramatically change its target in the brain


Optical stretcher

Instant insight: Squashing cancer cells

18 May 2009

Could stretching cells be the way to diagnose cancer? Claudia Brunner takes a biomechanical approach to medicine


Metal ion interacting with genes and proteins

Instant insight: What is metallomics?

08 April 2009

Amongst the '-omics' fields, metallomics is a relative newcomer. Ryszard Lobinski and colleagues provide their definition


Neurons in a brain

Instant insight: Food for thought

26 February 2009

How much does our diet have an effect on human memory and learning? Jeremy Spencer considers the case of the flavonoids


Effector binding at an allosteric site

Instant insight: Sorting perturbed proteins

05 February 2009

Ruth Nussinov and colleagues put their case for a more organised way of looking at protein allostery


Fragment of an erythropoietin analogue

Instant insight: Chemical connections

05 January 2009

Building a protein can be likened to a jigsaw puzzle. Stephen Kent puts the pieces together


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Highlights in Chemical Science's whirlwind tours of exciting research areas.

Instant insights

Whirlwind tours of exciting research areas of chemical technology.