Difluorosialic derivatives are a novel class of anti-influenza medicaments acting against drug-resistant viral strains
Novel Anti-influenza Drugs
Werner Prize for C. Nevado and C. Mazet
Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
Allergic to Animal Tests?
BASF and Promega develop an alternative method to identify allergenic substances
New Route to Antimalarial Artemisinin
A molybdenum-catalyzed synthesis of 1,2,4-trioxanes provides access to artemisinin and active analogues
Measuring Cell Cannibalism
New technique to quantify cell death by autophagy in vitro
Threading Drugs through DNA
DNA binding properties of binuclear ruthenium threading intercalators investigated with implications for design of new DNA binding drugs
Multifunctional Nanofibers
Novel preparation of nanofibers with TiO2 provides promise for various applications
Oxygen Releasing Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
Ways to integrate oxygen releasing agents into material for tissue engineering applications examined
What is the InChI Code?
This video introduces the InChI standard - the International Chemical Identifier - to represent chemical structures
Remedies of Old – What Was in Them and Were They Effective?
Analysis of a collection of old remedies helps understanding pharmazeutics 100–200 years ago