Short -term inhibition of enzyme could lead to a treatment for cognitive decline associated with old age

Memory Enzyme

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

Fluorescent Polylactide Complex
Nontoxic, biodegradable complex for early tumor detection with fluorescence microscopy

Carl-Mannich-Medal To T. Dingerman
German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) awards Carl-Mannich-Medal to its former president Professor Theo Dingermann

Protecting the Sweetness
Protection of amino sugar precursors made easy through a Lewis acid mediated rearrangement

Angew. Chem. 42/2010: Structures and Properties Out of the Ordinary
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Re-engineering Cell Walls
First example of engineering pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, to incorporate non-native small molecules