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Who's Next? 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Final Voting Results Wednesday 10 October

Chirality, On the Other Hand
Artificial helical peptide chains can induce enantioselectivity in some organic reactions, offering another clue to nature's chiral bias

Self-Assembling and Self-Cleaning
Microarrays of a naphthalenediimide derivative can be used to fabricate self-cleaning surfaces

Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
The 2012 Physics Nobel Prize goes to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on measuring individual quantum systems

Emil Fischer’s 160th Birthday
Hermann Emil Fischer, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, developed the Fischer projection for carbohydrates

Targeting Allosteric Regulations
The replication of hepatitis C virus can be blocked by compounds targeting an allosteric site in the viral protein NS3

Far Too Sensitive Explosives
Scientists prepared a highly energetic cation by amination of a tetrazole derivative

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 has been awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

REACH Registration Statistics
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published statistics on the origin and types of REACH registration dossiers and registered substances

New Kids on the Block: Base-Modified Nucleoside Triphosphates
Modified nucleoside triphosphates suitable for enzymatic amplification techniques, such as PCR, unlike phosphoramidite equivalents