The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

The risk associated with pharmaceuticals and pesticides is similar, but both are vital tools to maintain human health

Attempts to uncover active components of folk medicine have led to discovery of three new anti-inflammatory compounds in a toxic shrub

It is possible to create nanoscopic particles of platinum with precise shapes using facet-specific peptide sequences, according to US chemists

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Tracking bismuth uptake at the single-cell level using mass spectrometry could see new anti-ulcer drugs developed

Fungus provides cheap and renewable source of activated carbon for supercapacitors

An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Number of patent applications in Europe hits all-time high; European companies top the list of largest applicants

Engineered enzyme mimics human drug metabolism and produces metabolites on a scale suitable for characterization and testing