Contact lenses powered by the wearer's tears can detect glucose levels and so might be used for continual monitoring of patients with diabetes

Contact lenses powered by the wearer's tears can detect glucose levels and so might be used for continual monitoring of patients with diabetes
Nanotubes made from boron nitride can be used to package up pharmaceutical for targeted chemotherapy against cancer
Newly synthesized benzimidazole-type compounds work directly in the gut rather than circulating in the blood to lower triglycerides
A way to analyze novel organic reactions and determine whether they will have wide or limited utility in organic syntheses has been developed
A device for the genetic detection of pathogenic bacteria has emerged from microfluidics research coupled with NMR spectroscopy
Did life orginiate from a comet's impact? Latest MD simulations reveal an impact synthesis mechanism for important prebiotic heterocycles
Chemists in India have devised a formal stereoselective synthesis of the unprecedented, marine monocyclic ether alkaloid (–)-brevisamide
Narrowing the distribution of grain sizes in nickel-titanium thin films could make them stronger
Superhalogens, inorganic entities with extraordinarily high electron affinities, could theoretically ionize water clusters
A solvent and temperature driven self assembly of nanoscopic coordination cages with uranium ions at their heart has been developed