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

Interview: The frontiers of medicine

04 June 2009

Wilfred van der Donk tells Rachel Cooper about investigating enzymes and the choice between history and science

Forget drugs, get inhibited!

15 May 2009

Promising compounds which may help patients overcome drug addictions have been identified by US scientists

Pulling membranes off cells

11 May 2009

German scientists are ripping cells apart to study their elasticity

Electricity generates implant coating with potential

22 May 2009

A way to make medical implants last longer makes them more biocompatible than at first thought

Cell sorting sorted

21 May 2009

Catching cells in droplets has enabled scientists to make a highly efficient microchip to separate cells

A beacon of hope for childhood infection

09 June 2009

Sensitive approach allows naked eye detection of respiratory virus

Culturing rare microbes

01 June 2009

Getting Escherichia coli to grow may be easy enough, but how do you encourage less common species in a microbe mixture?

New Journal: Polymer Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry - a new journal encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas