Ulrike Flad is the granddaughter of the founder of the Dr. Flad Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and will take over its management from her father

Study of the structure–activity relationship of steroid sulfatase inhibitors explains why Irosustat is the best in its class

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Critical cellular protein that the Ebola virus needs to cause infection and disease identified; it is a promising antiviral target

Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Individual cells shown to deviate from 37 °C with areas of high and low temperature which may give clues to their mechanistic roles

Weifeng Ding, Scientific Editor Chinese Journal of Chemistry, discusses the differences between the Shanghai and Weinheim editorial offices

The humble zebrafish can be used to test the safety of transition metal oxide nanoparticles according to an international team