An international team can punch a hole in a single cell and inject a fluorescent probe to monitor enzymatic activity within

Cellular Punch-up

90th Birthday: Carl Djerassi
Inventor of oral contraceptive pill celebrates 90th birthday on October 29, 2013

New Evidence for CO and PF3 Analogy
Dianion (PF3)3 2− is the first example for an all-pseudo-π* 2π-aromatic system

Home-Spun Fibers
Electrospun hierarchical CaCo2O4 nanofibers are promising materials for lithium-ion batteries

Capturing Cancer Cells with Graphene Oxide Nanosheets
A new chip based on graphene oxide nanosheets detects circulating tumor cells with high specificity and sensitivity

120th Birthday: Sir Christopher Ingold
120th Birthday of Sir Chistopher Ingold, one of the chief pioneers of physical-organic chemistry

Scientists (of the World) Behave!
Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

New Route to Benzodioxin Derivatives
A new hetero-Diels-Alder reaction opens up a new route to the 1,4-benzodioxin framework

New Technique for Analyzing Transition-Metal Catalysts
Finding out which is the carbonyl ligand on your catalyst just got easier thanks to X-ray emission spectroscopy

A Transport to be Forbidden
Mycobacteria tuberculosis infections could be blocked by targeting the amino acid transporter AnsP1