Major topics in nutrition and health are moving closer together with research focussing, e.g., on olfaction and intestinal metagenomics

Food and Nutrition Research Trends and Strategies

New Low-Cost Catalyst for Fuel Cells
Titanium nitride nanoparticles grown on nitrogen-doped graphene sheets are better than Pt-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Alzheimer's Image Problem Solved
Copper-based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging can target the amyloid-β plaques implicated in Alzheimer's disease

A Simple Route to Chiral Synthesis
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones

Electrochemistry as a Sizing Technique
An electrochemical technique can be used to derive the size distribution of organic nanoparticles

Mix and Shake NMR Method
A simple "mix and shake" proton NMR method for determining the chirality of amines and amino alcohols

Health Benefits of Rooibos Tea
Possible therapeutic applications for Rooibos in the management of stress-related and metabolic diseases

Building Blocks to Sustainable Synthesis
Efficient one-pot procedure for the synthesis of homosubstituted imidazolium compounds on the basis of renewable precursors

New Route to 3'-Aminoacyl-tRNASec Mimics
Solid-state synthesis for selenocystein cognate transfer RNA (tRNASec) mimics could help understand the biosynthesis of selenocysteine

Let's Trist Again
Magnetic switching by using light might lead to a new type of computer storage medium based on an octahedral iron salt