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Molecular BioSystems

A new high quality chemical biology journal with a particular focus on the interface between chemistry and the -omic sciences and systems biology.



Molecular BioSystems News Archive


Viral peptide PEP1 lying flat on a vesicle surface and forming a pore through its membrane

How does a virus bore a hole in a cell?

30 April 2008

Chemists studying how viruses enter cells say their results could help in the search for new antiviral medicines.


A zinc dipicolylamine coated quantum dot

Quantum dots illuminate bacterial studies

30 April 2008

Fluorescent probes are shedding light on bacterial infection.


Kathryn Lilley

Interview: The protein detective

28 April 2008

Kathryn Lilley tells Michael Smith how curry and beer could be the downfall of biomarkers.


DNA

Plastic coats wrap up gene delivery

25 April 2008

UK chemists have used smart polymers to deliver DNA into cells.


DNA dispersed in the liquid crystalline phases of phospholipids

Liquid crystals in all of us?

18 April 2008

European researchers spark debate as they claim that cell nuclei may contain liquid crystals.


The lab-on-a-chip device for detection of sarin

Nerve agent detector on a chip

16 April 2008

A microfluidic device that can identify exposure to sarin could help identify individuals needing treatment at sites of terrorist attack.


Scheme showing cell-penetrating peptides entering a cell

Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane

16 April 2008

Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.


Hagan Bayley

Interview: Managing chaos

15 April 2008

Hagan Bayley talks to Laura Howes about the constraints of defining science and what he's learnt from the business world.


Kinesin motor proteins moving along a microtubule

Cellular power plants fuel molecular motors

14 April 2008

Mitochondria have been used to power miniature motors for microfluidics.


A multilayer film releasing nitric oxide

Layered film offers NO control

03 April 2008

Nitric oxide releasing film provides 'significant step' towards molecule-based machines.


A heart

Computers get to the heart of gene expression

03 April 2008

Unravelling the genetic basis of heart disease by combining computational biology techniques.


RSC Prospect computer

Search for structures within articles

02 April 2008

RSC Prospect's new features allow you to do just that - and more


A cyanine dye linked to DNA with an ethynyl linker

The rigid future of DNA labels

02 April 2008

How do you study DNA without affecting it? Chemists have linked fluorescent tags to DNA so that they do not alter the helix's stability.


DNA helices

Tumour treatments see the light

27 March 2008

DNA-seeking probes could deliver anticancer agents right to the heart of tumour cells, say chemists in Italy.


Peter Houghton

Interview: The science of herbal remedies

11 March 2008

Peter Houghton tells Joanne Thomson that there is still much to be learnt from traditional medicine.


A marine environment with sponges and fish

Mapping the therapeutic secrets of the sea

06 March 2008

The world's oceans: an underexploited resource for potential new drugs?


A Staphylococcus aureus biofilm

Marine inspiration for biofilm break up

05 March 2008

Inspired by natural product oroidin, American scientists have developed compounds to disperse bacterial films linked to infection.


Ruedi Aebersold

Interview: Putting peptides on the map

18 February 2008

Ruedi Aebersold talks to Kathleen Too about proteomics, the PeptideAtlas project and the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline.


Start of an athletes race

It's off and running

01 January 2008

Less than three years after the first ever publication in 2005 - Molecular BioSystems is now officially off and running as a solo publication.