Bee venom helps researchers create detector sensitive enough to detect a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT

Bee Venom Helps Detect Explosives

Double Detection
Device that couples optical and electrochemical detection illuminates how vesicles deliver compounds to and from cells

Angewandte Author Profiles May
Kilian Muñiz, Anthony K. Cheetham, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, and Helmuth Möhwald, are interviewed this month

Angewandte Chemie 21/2011 – The Worm that Turned
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Real-Time Tracking of Oil Spills
Biosensor that uses antibodies detects marine pollutants and can provide real-time monitoring of oil spills to guide their clean-up

New Technology for Drug Development
Instrument that measures biomarkers in single cells at 1000 cells per second, could explain how healthy cells become diseased

Angewandte Chemie 20/2011: Fireworks
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Bacteria Fear Garlic
How does garlic destroy bacteria?

Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

Wonderlab Comic — Goggles
Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor