October 2007

Putting a number on carbohydrate-pi interactions
02 October 2007
US scientists figure out sugars' sticking power.

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.

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.

Nanofibres see red
12 October 2007
An imaging process could help shed light on cellular processes in medical disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

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.

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.

Contrasting nanoparticles
25 October 2007
Medical imaging methods may soon have a new contrast agent thanks to a different way of preparing nanoparticles.

Basic extraction of uranium
25 October 2007
Coordination complexes that can remove radioactive elements from the environment have been developed by US scientists.

Cells surface as protein producers
26 October 2007
Scientists in Japan are using cells as protein factories.

