The Isenheim Altar depicts the symptoms and treatment of “St. Anthony’s Fire”, the result of poisoning by ergot alkaloids

A Chemical Examination of the Isenheim Altar: Role Played in History by Horned Rye (1)

Patchwork Nanosheets Help Burns Patients
Biodegradable nanosheets protect burn wounds against infection and could reduce the need for dressings to be changed daily

A Migraine Drug Fights Neurodegeneration
The migraine drug naratriptan improves motor neuron degeneration in a mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Into Neurotensin’s Binding Mode
The crystal structure of the activated neurotensin receptor revealed how it interacts with its agonist

Engelbert Zass Awarded
E. Zass, Head of the Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Information Center at ETH Zurich, will be awarded the Gmelin Beilstein Medal

Assembling Gold Nanorods Using DNA
American scientists used DNA hybridization to assemble therapeutic near infrared-responsive gold nanoparticles

Angewandte Author Profiles October 2012
Dayang Wang, Günter Mayer, and Hiroshi Shinokubo were interviewed

Fish Poisoning: Ca2+ Channels Matter
Food poisoning from fish causes oversensitivity to mild cold by activating voltage-dependent calcium channels

Infectious Prion Digested by Crows
Prion remains infectious after passage through digestive system of crows

Novel Assays for Research and Clinical Routine
Collaboration of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Immundiagnostik to combine antibody technology and mass spectroscopy