Chemical biology news and research from across RSC Publishing.
Issue 7, Research News
Instant Insight
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
Interview
Interview: Sugar rush
27 May 2008
Peter Seeberger talks to Joanne Thomson about rapid carbohydrate synthesis and the fight against malaria.
Research Highlights
3D biological metal detection
08 May 2008
The water flea acts as a testbed for a non-destructive 3D imaging method that pinpoints metals in vivo.
Genetic code does the twist
06 June 2008
A computational model reveals how DNA and RNA strands fold into hairpins
Synthetic chaperones lead to protein reform
03 June 2008
Chemists are going for gold to fold unravelled proteins
Pumpkin plants pick-up particles
29 May 2008
Could nanoparticles find their way into the human food chain?
Weighing up cells
11 June 2008
How much does a cell weigh? US chemists are using a miniature cantilever to find out
Holey approach to wound healing research
19 May 2008
On-chip method allows fully automated cell migration studies.
Sizing up proteins on-chip
13 June 2008
US scientists have formed gels on-chip for easier and cheaper protein separation
Essential Elements
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