Optically generated vapor bubbles make hydrogel microrobots move; a novel new way of creating non-mechanical microbots

Aplyronine A’s mechanism of action investigated using its fluorescent derivative

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month

Lysozyme is detected voltammetrically at the water/ionic liquid interface

New method for template-directed DNA synthesis in the 3’ and 5’ directions could help explain origin of life

Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA

Influence of the widespread glacial melting and rapid rise in freshwater inflow on marine algae along the west coast of Greenland

Unique composition and architecture of cystoliths, mineralized objects found in the leaves of several plants, discovered

Sason Shaik, Israel, and Martin Quack, Switzerland, are awarded the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Gold Medal of the GDCh