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Angewandte Chemie 23/2012: The Art of Abstraction

Organic Electronics Help Control Muscles
Chemical chips containing logic gates, such as NAND gates, allow for chemical control of muscles

Optimization of Leather Unhairing
Safe enzymatic preparation can replace the toxic chemicals commonly used in unhairing of hides

Castor Oil: Old and New
Castor oil induces laxation and uterus contraction via ricinoleic acid activating prostaglandin EP3 receptors

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Imaging of Flowing Blood Cells
Spectrally encoded flow cytometry (SEFC), for high resolution imaging of flowing red and white blood cells in human patients

Eggs on Stalks Inspire Synthetic Silk
Researchers imitate the silk egg stalks of lacewings and create synthetic biomaterial that has similar tensile strength and elasticity

Plant Growth Without Light
Synthetic photoreceptor allows plants to developed in the dark as if they were in light

Molecular Pentafoil Knot Parameters
Detailed study of specific reaction parameters that allow pentameric cyclic Fe(II) double helicate and molecular pentafoil knot to form

Measuring the Mass of Nanoparticles and Viruses
Determining the mass and mass distribution of nanoparticles and viruses just got easier thanks to a novel approach to mass spectrometry