Catalytic nanoshuttles able to propel and navigate drug carriers to target destinations for rapid delivery of drugs

Drug Delivery with Nanoshuttles

Catalytic Fluorination – Major Challenge
Discovery of selectively adding a fluorine or trifluoromethyl group to biologically active compounds dramatically improve their properties

Angewandte Chemie 46/2010: Food for Thought
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Mess-ter Comic – ROP is Easy!
A comic series by Sophie Lin: In part 3 she depicts how chemistry can sometimes surprise you

Alcohol Most Harmful Drug
Study reveals that, overall, alcohol is the most harmful drug with heroin and crack cocaine in second and third places

Vital Italian Inorganic Chemistry!
Report from the Italian Inorganic Chemistry Congress in Trieste

Bismuth for Bone Cement
Water-soluble bismuth cluster is key to the formation of a hybrid material

Replacing a Ring with a Ball
Asborin, the carbaborane-containing analogue of aspirin, holds promise as lead structure for aldo/keto reductase (AKR) inhibition

A Twist in the Tail
Compound in scorpion venom is found to suppress vascular smooth muscle cell migration and could help heart surgery

Easier Tubulysins: Delivered!
Delivery of tubulysin analogues using dendrimer conjugation technology promises efficacy without toxicity