Professor G. la Marca speaks about the importance of newborn screening and why it is more than a useful biochemical test

Importance of Mass Spectrometry for Newborn Screening

Guess the Mineral (3)
Guess the name of a mineral with the help of an image and some tips

Size and Shape Matter
Special nanoparticle structures measured by light scattering

Antibody-Free Detection
Graphene oxide photoluminescence can be modulated to allow detection of neurotransmitters

Chemical Poems: Tin
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Porous Silicon Reveals Fingerprints
The electrochemiluminescence of porous silicon can be used to visualize latent fingerprints, and to detect TNT in them

Drug Design with Fluorine NMR
A correlation between 19F NMR chemical shifts and intermolecular interactions gives guidelines for interactions with receptors

Contamination of Seafood with Arsenolipids
RP-HPLC-ICP-MS in combination with ESI-MS reveals that Arsenolipids are the major class of Arsenic in canned cod liver

Dorothy Hodgkin – Pioneer of the Study of Biomolecules by XRay Crystallography
1964 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for "the determination of the structures of important biochemical substances by means of the X-ray technique"

Career: As A Chemist at a Museum
Dr. S. Röhrs has worked as a scientist at the Musées de France, The British Museum, and is now at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin