International Society of Electrochemistry prize awarded to Arkady Karyakin, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

A. Karyakin Receives Bioelectrochemistry Prize

Towards Edible Crop Seeds
Identification of glucosinolate transporters might facilitate the production of edible crop seeds

Dow Replaces Hg Catalysts
Dow replaces mercury catalysts for polyurethane elastomer products

Angewandte Chemie 34/2012: In the Limelight
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

350th Anniversary: Blaise Pascal's Death
Blaise Pascal contested the idea that nature abhors a vacuum and is the answer to Guess the Chemist (8)

Commercial Bio-based Acrylic Acid Process
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes jointly develop industrial biotechnology-based production process for acrylic acid from renewable raw materials

Non-enzymatic Pd Recovery
(Bio)Materials rich in amine groups are proposed as an ideal support for recovering Pd from waste

Bayer Prepares for Farming`s Future
Bayer CropScience completes acquisition of AgraQuest, a global supplier of innovative biological pest management solutions

Live Tagged
Sialic acid analog tagged with a fluorescent moiety could find application in live cell imaging according to Japanese researchers

Imaging Renal Acute Tubular Necrosis
Magnetic resonance imaging of hyperpolarized [1,4-13C2]fumarate can be used to detect early renal tubular necrosis