Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, wins Humboldt Research Award
Humboldt Research Award for A. Ciechanover
New Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academician is the highest academic title conferred on Chinese scientists and experts working in scientific and technological fields
New Coat for Golden Rods
New pretreatment process delivers biocompatible, stable gold nanorods for tumor treatment
Fundamental Research Needs Excellent Scientists and its Own Space
Helmut Schwarz and Daniela Kneißl outline the requirements for excellent fundamental research
Getting “The Knowledge” Changes Brain Structure
London taxi drivers demonstrate that learning in adult life drives structural brain changes in the hippocampus
Total Synthesis of Indolizidine (+)-223A
Simple procedure providing easy access to alkaloid 223A in sufficient quantities from readily accessible compounds
50 Years of the Karl Winnacker Institute
The Karl Winnacker Institute of the DECHEMA celebrates its 50th anniversary
Angewandte Author Profiles December
Robert Mulvey, Xinliang Feng, Rhett Kempe, and Zhang-Jie Shi are interviewed this month
J. Schrader Wins Otto von Guericke Prize
Jens Schrader, Karl Winnacker Institute of DECHEMA, awarded for converting orange peel into preservative for cosmetics
Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids into Silkworms
First demonstration of residue-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) into protein synthesis in the silkworm