Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society

Werner Prize for C. Nevado and C. Mazet

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

Reinvestigating Tatanans A–C
A concise, step-economical synthesis of natural products, tatanans A–C, and their biological activity is examined