Needle that delivers a shot directly into a cell’s nucleus gives temporally and spatially controlled delivery

Precision Injection

Water Splitting with Ru Complexes – Poster Presentation
Jennifer Paley from the group of Catherine Housecroft and Edwin Constable, University of Basel, Switzerland, looks at the photo- and electrochemical properties of Ru(II) complexes for water splitting

New Cefic President
Giorgio Squinzi takes over from Christian Jourquin as the president of the European Chemical Industry Council

Wöhler-Award for Younger Chemists
The Wöhler-Award for Younger Chemists was awarded to Dr. Jan J. Weigand, Münster, Germany, at the Wöhler Conference

Chocolate – The Noblest Polymorphism III
Klaus Roth takes the final look at chocolate, health, sex, and drugs as he asks - Chocolate, a healthy food?

Fertilizer Frauds
Measurement of the δ15N value of lettuces could provide a cheap, rough indicator of illicit synthetic fertilizer use in organic crops

Congratulations!
Professor Bert W. Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, has been named the 2011 The Chemical Record Lecturer

Allosteric Catalyst
Triple-layer catalyst opens way for detection of small molecules by mimicking allosteric enzymes

New Industry Between Food & Pharma
Nestlé Health Science S.A. and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences established to target new opportunity between food and pharma

Bio Meets Nano
Quantum dots can be used as light-harvesting antennas for artificial photosynthetic systems