Hope for previously untreatable, prion-caused diseases comes from the indole-3-glyoxylamide family

The first stereoselective total synthesis of Amphidinin B has been achieved on a gram-scale, allowing biological evaluation

Xiaoming Feng, Laurent Maron, Hsiang-Rong Tseng, and François P. Gabbaï, are interviewed this month

Revealed: Biochemistry explaining potency and addictive nature of cannabis-like "herbal high" sold as incense in Europe

Biocompatibility and water solubility of cellular probes have been improved with iridium complexes with carbohydrates attached

A cocktail of small molecules is able to convert fully differentiated skin cells back into stem cells

Karl Gademann, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, awarded

Tailor-made vaccines have become more realistic, thanks to a team of European researchers

Direct, label-free detection of cholera toxin is now possible thanks to the development of microfluidics analytical device in Italy

Bacterial transglutaminase enables site-specific addition of various probes to tumor-targeting antibodies for better uptake