Immunoassay that uses an optical biosensor can screen infant formula milk products for the toxic chemical melamine

This year's Wolf Prize in chemistry goes jointly to Stuart A. Rice, Ching Tang, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

There is interest in incorporating lycopene into foods as it is a natural pigment and can also play a role in preventing disease

The continuous in situ generation of diazomethane in a safe manner is possible with new dual-channel microreactor

Star-shaped polymer could be used in white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for low energy light sources

Daniel J. Mindiola, Dieter Schlüter, Takashi Kato, Buxing Han and are interviewed this month

The German Association of Biotechnology Industries (DIB) says that GM-free regions will hamper bio-economy

A tool for synthetic organic chemists, (E,E)-1,5-cyclooctadiene, could find wide utility in chemical biology and polymer chemistry

Glycogen, the glucose buffer in animals, is differently structured in type 2 diabetes according to a chromatographic and electrophoresis study

First direct measurement of electron transport in single molecules shows stacked aromatics could be used as molecular wires