New insights into the way mammalian sirtuin proteins function could offer a clearer understanding of the aging process

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012

Only a limited number of studies examined the environmental impacts of small-scale wastewater treatment alternatives

Overview of the chemical synthesis of cardiotonic steroid glycosides – recently neglected, but promising field

Rainfall can mobilize hormones from biosolids-amended agricultural fields directly to surface waters or redistribute them to terrestrial sites

Largest molecular supertetrahedral Tn cluster known to date synthesized by using organic superbases

Two-step chemical mechanism proposed for ribosome-catalysed peptide bond formation

Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

Library of potential low molecular weight hydrogelators synthesized; will guide production of novel inexpensive, easy to use water purification platforms