Nanocapsules containing penicillin acylase can make their own antibiotic and deliver it to a specific target site
Nanoscopic Antibiotic Factory
First Nanoparticles Targeting Senescent Cells
Microporous silica nanoparticles capped with galacto-oligosaccharides selectively deliver cargo to senescent cells
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 has been awarded to R. Lefkowitz and B. Kobilka for their work on G protein-coupled receptors
Who's Next? 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Final Voting Results Wednesday 10 October
Final summary of results for ChemistryViews readers likely and unlikely, serious and whimsical suggestions for Nobel Prize winners
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