The JC polyomavirus (JCV) must bind a specific sugar molecule located at the side of the brain cells it attacks
Virus Needs Sugar For Infection
How Vaccines Change The Immune Response
Vaccines that change host immune responses to pathogens: The role of Th17 cells in leishmaniasis
A Spoonful of Salt Helps the Medicine Go Down
Crystal engineers have found a way to change the solvated form of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib to improve oral availability
Medical LEDs Get Under Your Skin
Ultra-thin sheets of LEDs implanted under the skin could be used in medical monitoring or in light-activated drug delivery systems
New EuCheMS President
The EuCheMS elected Ulrich Schubert, Vienna University of Technology, member of the Austrian chemical society, as their new president
Memory Enzyme
Short -term inhibition of enzyme could lead to a treatment for cognitive decline associated with old age
Startled by Addiction Research
Clue to drug addiction emerges from studies of episodic withdrawal from morphine and its effects on psychomotor sensitization
Frequency Comb Spectroscopy
Molecular fingerprinting technique picks out traces of hydrogen-containing and other molecules at ppb levels in a gas in 30 s or less
Angewandte Author Profiles
Helmut Werner, Leroy Cronin, Otto Wolfbeis, and Takuzo Aida, are interviewed this month
UV or IR for AZT
IR and UV spectroscopy can be used to analyze the HIV/AIDS drug, Zidovudine (AZT) in solid dosage form