Impressions of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas

247th ACS Meeting

Why Dark Chocolate is Healthy
Bacteria from the gut ferment dark chocolate to produce healthful antioxidants

Honey Fights Antibiotic Resistance
Studies to identify compounds responsible for the unusual ability that honey has to fight infections

An Antioxidant Mushroom
Methanol extracts of the mushroom Tremella fuciformis show antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities

Blackberries? Frozen, Please
Long-term freezing is an easy and appropriate method to store blackberries without altering their chemical content

New Source of Methionine
Evonik will build a plant for the production of a new source of methionine specially developed for shrimp and other crustaceans

Palm Hearts: Overlooked Healthy Vegetables
Palm hearts are vegetables having a good nutritional composition and healthy properties

2013 Trends in Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend reports published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

Why Do the Well-fed Die Young?
A new evolutionary hypothesis for the effect of dietary restriction on lifespan

GDCh Prize for Authors and Journalists
Dr. Michael Gross, Oxford, UK, has been awarded by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society)