And the Winner for the Most Accurate Science in a Movie or TV series goes to …

Hollywood Chemistry

David Y. Gin (1967 – 2011)
Professor David Y. Gin, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA, passed away last week

Winner of the Second iPad
Dr. H. Raaijmakers, Cosun Food Technology Centre, The Netherlands, is the January winner of the Win an iPad campaign

Multitarget Drugs against Prion Diseases
Hybrid lipoic acid derivatives attack prion disease on multiple fronts suggesting possible targets for treatment

Gernot Boche (1938 – 2011)
Gernot Boche, Professor Emeritus University of Marburg, Germany, passed away last week

Sorted Building Blocks
Synthesis of stereogradient poly(propylene carbonate) by stereo- and enantioselective copolymerization of propylene oxide with CO2

How Do Nuclear Plants Work?
General introduction in how nuclear plants work

Tough Crystal Nut Cracked
Correct prediction of all three known crystal structures of a sulfonimide

Chemistry of Make Up
To produce the rainbow of colors on today's make up racks, chemists derive dyes from a variety of compounds

2010 Trends in Biochemistry
An overview of the latest trend report published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine