ChemistryViews introduces interesting women throughout the International Year of Chemistry

Andrew Teasdale, AstraZeneca, talks about his book on genotoxic impurities and what constitutes an acceptable drug risk

Hansjörg Grützmacher, Aiwen Lei, Nicolai Cramer, and Herbert Mayr are interviewed this month

Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Nagoya University, Japan, takes over the role of President of IUPAC

Jan Reedijk discusses how citation metrics are pushing editors, referees, and authors into strategic and sometimes unethical behavior

Synthetic viral capsules can be constructed easily and might be used in highly efficient gene therapy to deliver genetic agents to cells

A brief guide to designing effective figures for the scientific paper created by University of Washington scientists

The latest edition of Solvents and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry is reviewed by Ralf Giernoth, University of Cologne

Professor B. Albert, the new GDCh (German Chemical Society) president, introduces herself to the membership

Ring-opening polymerization of DL-lactide in supercritical CO2 can be carried out at much lower temperature than conventional reaction