Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 23/2021: Iconic Chemistry

Titanium Dioxide No Longer Considered Safe as a Food Additive
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) updates safety assessment

SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Levels and Infectiousness in Different Patient Groups
Large study of viral loads allows estimations of the effects of age group and disease severity

Merck Accelerates Scale Up of Lipids for mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines
New, high-purity synthetic cholesterol product launched nine months ahead of schedule

Inexpensive Gold-Leaf Electrodes Help to Detect Viral Infections
Rapid detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in low-resource settings

Second-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
CureVac and GSK aim to jointly develop vaccine candidates that offer improved immune responses and target emerging variants

Iron Coordination and Antiproliferative Activity
Prochelators team up with serum albumin to target iron in cancer cells

Microneedle Patch Delivers Antibiotics to the Skin
Direct delivery into the affected skin area could help treat deadly bacterial infections

A Hairpin to Fight Cancer
Bicyclic protein mimetics inhibit the oncogene β-catenin

Why Some Patients Keep Testing Positive for SARS-CoV-2
Reverse-transcribed SARS-CoV-2 RNA can integrate into the genome of cultured human cells