Nanomaterial made from lipids and silicon dioxide improves absorption of pharmaceuticals by imitating the food effect

Simulated Digestion for Better Drug Delivery

Two-Legged Molecule That Walks
Small molecule that can move independently along a track uses ring opening and closing reactions to take each step

The First Seconds in a Building’s Life
X-ray diffraction studies of cement hydration on the millisecond scale

Boiled Eggs: Soft and Hard — Part 3
We look at the chemical changes that occur when an egg is boiled and discover how to unboil the egg afterwards

Improved Mussel Adhesive
Biocompatible, waterproof, self-healing, and reversible: A new adhesive for medical applications?

Specificity by Ring Size
Bicyclic peptides with optimized ring size inhibit enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds while sparing paralogous proteases

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Pathogens
A microfluidic electrochemical amplification technique allows for the rapid, sensitive, and quantitative detection of pathogenic DNA

Chemical Synthetic Biology
Book covering a dynamic new area of research at the interface of science and engineering is reviewed by S. Brakmann, TU Dortmund

Boiled Eggs: Soft and Hard — Part 2
We examine an egg on its journey from hen to table, including the first in situ monitoring methods, to ensure the perfect breakfast egg

Consumer Attitudes to Climate Change
How attitudes to climate change differ across the world