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

Interview: Talking stem cells

13 July 2009

Blagoy Blagoev on how proteomics could be the key to understanding the unique biological properties of stem cells

Stiff resolution for cells

17 June 2009

Implications for cancer diagnosis as US researchers suggest ridged channels will separate hard and soft cells

Printing artificial cells

19 June 2009

In a step towards cell mimics, an inkjet printer is being used to make lipid-coated balls containing proteins

Brewing a drug delivery platform

26 June 2009

A tea compound has been used to prepare a drug-releasing film with anticancer properties

Size matters to stem cells

30 June 2009

Nanosurface topography can be more important than chemistry

Probing protein aggregation

02 July 2009

NMR used to follow Alzheimer's-linked tau protein as it tangles

An alternative to quantum dots

06 July 2009

Yttrium-based bioimaging agents override background fluorescence in tissue

Record impact factors

RSC Publishing celebrates record breaking 2008 impact factor results