Biocompatible, waterproof, self-healing, and reversible: A new adhesive for medical applications?
Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.

Improved Mussel Adhesive

Specificity by Ring Size
Bicyclic peptides with optimized ring size inhibit enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds while sparing paralogous proteases

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Pathogens
A microfluidic electrochemical amplification technique allows for the rapid, sensitive, and quantitative detection of pathogenic DNA

Launch of New Organic Chemistry Journal
Wiley-VCH and ACES to launch new organic chemistry journal rooted in Asia

Stay Calm with Domino
New domino sequence makes benzodiazepine-containing drugs for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, and seizures

Solvent-Free Luminescent Organic Liquids
A solvent-free route to luminescent organic liquids presents a new method for making for organic electronic devices

Two-in-One Imaging Agents
MRI systems with high relaxivities and long luminescence lifetimes also suitable for time-gated fluorescence imaging

Chiral Recognition by Femtosecond Laser
Use of compact laser system rather than synchrotron radiation for identifying chiral compounds could find use in analysis

Finding Cancer Cells in Blood
Chip-based method for the rapid, sensitive isolation of rare cells in blood

Diamino Acids Found in Simulated Interstellar Ices
The groups of Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert have used multidimensional gas chromatography to detect building blocks of genes in artificial cosmos