The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 has been awarded to eleven outstanding researchers

Germany's Most Prestigious Research Prize

Bimodal Nanoprobes to Image Brain Tumors
Bimodal nanoprobes allow accurate fluorescent and magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastomas

Making the Good Much Better Against Cancer
Synthesis, anti-tubulin and antiproliferative structure–activity relationship of steroidomimetic dihydroisoquinolinones

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

Inducing the Self-Digestion of Melanoma Cells
A compound that kills melanoma cells through an apoptosis-independent mechanism has been discovered

Asian Plant for Better Vision
Retinal degeneration can be prevented by ethanol extracts of a plant widely cultivated in East Asia

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 3
Looking at the chemical and physiological properties of vitamin C and at how it intervenes in many biochemical processes

Guess the Chemist (27)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Chemical Poems: Phosphorus
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Treating Autism in the Womb?
Abnormal concentration of chloride ions in the neurons of autistic-like animals found to be associated to inhibiting a signaling shift