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

Interview: Inspired by nature

19 March 2009

Ann Valentine talks about bioinorganic chemistry, titanium and avoiding rust

Stainless skin cancer diagnosis

27 February 2009

An infrared imaging technique that can distinguish different types of skin cancer has been developed by scientists in France

Electrochemical solution to virus detection

06 March 2009

Scientists in China provide an easy-to-use approach to hepatitis C diagnosis

Rapid technique for prostate cancer diagnosis

05 March 2009

Test to measure cancer-linked biomarkers takes less than three minutes to complete

Biofilms under control

17 February 2009

Microbe communities shun an artificial sweetener for a means to study biofilm growth

Expanding routes for drug delivery

10 March 2009

Peptide-triggered particles that release cargos when they meet an enzyme could find use delivering drugs in the body

Finding a bacterium in a blood sample

16 March 2009

How do you separate bacteria from small biological samples? A lab-on-a-chip device that does just that offers hope for diagnostics

Announcing two new journals

RSC Publishing has announced the launch of two new monthly journals in autumn 2009, Analytical Methods and Nanoscale