Mimicking nature is leading to some creative and green ways to synthesize organic substrates

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis: Recent Developments

Detecting Microorganisms
New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique

Wonderlab Comic — Survivor
A new comic series by Sophie Lin: It's a bad day for glassware in Sophie's lab as they play Survivor ...

A Drug Pipeline Going Dry
The number of effective anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs continues to dwindle; can we find new agents for treating drug-resistant TB?

New Tool for Biomarker Verification
Gold electrode-based biochip has been shown to sequentially capture and focus antigens for immunoaffinity mass spectrometry testing

Overcoming Cancer Chemoresistance
The effectiveness of current cancer treatments can be improved with brusatol which also combats chemoresistance

IYC Opening Ceremony in Paris
The Official IYC 2011 Opening Ceremony in Paris was an impressive event – have a look at the highlights

DNA Labeling for hmC Detection
A new analytical method for the detection of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC) residues, present in mammalian DNA, is reported

How Safe Is Nano?
Nanotoxicology: An interdisciplinary challenge

Nanoparticles Filter Cancer Cells
Outside-the-body filtration device removes a large portion of the free-floating cancer cells that often create secondary tumors