Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 23/2018: Interplay

How Were the First Building Blocks of Life Stabilized?
Droplets could have protected chemically unstable compounds in the primordial soup

ULTIMATE Reagent for End-Labeling Any Nucleic Acid
Regiospecific and reversible labeling with Universal Light-cleaved TerminI-Modifying And TaggablE (ULTIMATE) reagent

Libraries for Proteins
Dynamic combinatorial libraries generated from hydrazone-functionalized surface mimetics

Angewandte Chemie 22/2018: The Mind Gap
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Biomimetic Synthetic Receptor for Fucose
Selectively recognizing the sugar fucose in water

Mercurated Triplex-Forming Oligonucleotides
Single organomercurated base can stabilize triple-stranded DNA - great potential for use in regulation of gene expression

Synthetic Cells for Tumor Treatment
Artificial vesicles produce anticancer proteins

Genome Editing to Study Gut Bacteria
Merck and Washington University collaborate on gut bacteria research to diagnose and treat malnourished children

CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018
Assessing the scientific performance of over 900 universities based on bibliometric indicators