The commercial fish Pacific cod contains a glycopeptides able to block the metastasis of pancreatic cancer cells

Cancer Fighting Fish: Source of New Drugs?

First Shale Gas Pilot Project in Argentina
Argentine energy company YPF signed an agreement with DOW Argentinia for the development of shale gas in Vaca Muerta

TUM DeSal Challenge 2013 Teams Announced
Providing water for the world: Competition to supply drinking water by desalination without using fossil energy, at low cost, with minimum effort

Make your Ph.D. Accessible!
Let the world know, not just your colleagues! Publish a summary of your Ph.D. thesis in ChemistryOpen

Chemical Analysis of Shale Wastewater
Wastewater treatment plants may not be able to provide sufficient treatment of water used in fracking process

Blocking Hypoxia Inducible Factors Allosterically
US scientists have developed a small molecule which antagonizes the transcriptional factor HIF-2 by inducing allosteric changes

An Olive Branch for Lignin: Pass the Hydrogen
The microwave-assisted depolymerization of lignin to bio-oil from olive tree waste is achieved in hydrogen-donating solvents

Biochemical Methane Production
Cryo-electron microscopy images reveal the structure of a hydrogenase used by archaebacteria to split hydrogen to produce methane

New Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Material
First hydrophilic cucurbit[7]-pseudorotaxane-monolayer-protected gold nanorod hybrid reported

Sensing Organic Pollutants
Competitive host–guest interactions used in a new sensor for organic pollutants