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October 2007


Carbohydrate interactions with aromatic rings

Putting a number on carbohydrate-pi interactions

02 October 2007

US scientists figure out sugars' sticking power.


Escherichia coli bacteria trapped in an alumina matrix

Life for locked up cells

08 October 2007

Chemists in France have trapped live bacteria inside an aluminium-based ceramic, paving the way for new biomedical materials.


Tropos ligands are used in the enantioselective catalysis in chiral ionic liquids

Hot Article: Solid-phase synthesis of jasplakinolide analogs

09 October 2007

German scientists have developed a solid-phase approach to the synthesis of a class of natural product, Jasplakinolide, analogs via "click" chemistry.


Escherichia coli treated with a hydrogelator precursor stained by Congo red dye

Nanofibres see red

12 October 2007

An imaging process could help shed light on cellular processes in medical disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.


Structure of new permeable polymer

New paradigm for permeable polymers

15 October 2007

Scientists in Japan have designed a new class of gas-permeable polymers that could replace materials currently used to separate gases.


Close-up of a gold-nanoparticle-labelled fingerprint

Electrochemical method reads fingerprints more easily

18 October 2007

Swiss scientists have developed a way to detect fingerprints by measuring the chemical traces they leave on a surface.


TEM image of magnetite nanoparticles

Contrasting nanoparticles

25 October 2007

Medical imaging methods may soon have a new contrast agent thanks to a different way of preparing nanoparticles.


Structure of the uranyl Schiff base complex

Basic extraction of uranium

25 October 2007

Coordination complexes that can remove radioactive elements from the environment have been developed by US scientists.


Semisynthesis of a protein

Cells surface as protein producers

26 October 2007

Scientists in Japan are using cells as protein factories.


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Emotional enzymes

29 October 2007

Chemists in the US have created fluorescent probes that can detect enzymes affecting our emotions.