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

Detecting Melamine in Milk

2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
This year's Wolf Prize in chemistry goes jointly to Stuart A. Rice, Ching Tang, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

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

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

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

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

Commitment of the Federal Government Questioned
The German Association of Biotechnology Industries (DIB) says that GM-free regions will hamper bio-economy

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

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

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