Tools of synthetic biology used to engineer detector plants and discussed how to make such designed systems orthogonal

Stimulant marketed as “natural” in sports supplements is actually of synthetic origin according to isotope study

Matthias Ballauff, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, celebrates his 60th birthday

The German chemical industry now is impacted by the debt and banking crisis in the EU, but sales only fell slightly

Comparing the 2011 ISI Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

Large international conference focussed on most recent progress in catalysis research and development

Doped nanochannels in tantalum nitride endow this material with the power to split water efficiently using sunlight

Total synthesis of the highly oxygenated octacyclic natural product schindilactone A is achieved in 29 steps

The seminal publication of Ching Tang’s work in 1987 on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is celebrated in a special issue

Textbook aimed at undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students is reviewed by Piet van Leeuwen, Spain