Alkynyl phosphine gold complexes show antiproliferative effects in tumor cells, enzyme inhibition, and influence angiogenesis
Golden Bullets for Cancer
Microrobots Assemble Cell Patterns
Optically generated vapor bubbles make hydrogel microrobots move; a novel new way of creating non-mechanical microbots
Fluorescent Investigations
Aplyronine A’s mechanism of action investigated using its fluorescent derivative
Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month
Protein on the Edge
Lysozyme is detected voltammetrically at the water/ionic liquid interface
Direction Selection
New method for template-directed DNA synthesis in the 3’ and 5’ directions could help explain origin of life
Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property
Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA
Influence of Advancing Ice Melt
Influence of the widespread glacial melting and rapid rise in freshwater inflow on marine algae along the west coast of Greenland
Understanding Biomineralization Systems
Unique composition and architecture of cystoliths, mineralized objects found in the leaves of several plants, discovered