US researchers engineered the anti-leukemic drug Navitoclax into a new a compound devoid of toxic effects on platelets

Kill the Tumor But Spare the Platelets!

Global Online Atlas for Renewable Resources
Open, flexible Internet platform provides resource maps and tools for evaluating the technical potential of renewable energies worldwide

Rechargeable Batteries with Graphene Anodes
Cheaper and faster methods for creating nanomaterials that can be used for lithium-ion batteries developed

Aziridines: Go With the Flow
Treatment of aziridine precursors with sBuLi provides a route to functionlized aziridines or C4-functionalized tetrahydroisoquinolines

Easy Strategy to Ordered Graphene Structure
Low-cost facile strategy to create free-standing, 3D ordered porous graphene structure via an “on water spreading” method

Quick and Selective H2S Detection
A ratiomeric fluorescent probe allows the rapid and selective detection of hydrogen sulfide in mitochondria

Angewandte Chemie 4/2013: Bio & Nano
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Functional in a Flash
Inexpensive and non-toxic aluminum catalyst can make highly functional organic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide

New Clariant Production Site in Mexico
Clariant has inaugurated a production site for its industrial and consumer specialties (ICS) business unit at Coatzacoalcos, Mexico

Optogenetics – Revolutionizing Biochemistry
Optogenetic reporters, one of the most important tools of optogenetics, are introduced and latest findings summarized