Andrew Teasdale, AstraZeneca, talks about his book on genotoxic impurities and what constitutes an acceptable drug risk

Dual-isotope procedure that allows tracking of individual fish and their offspring could help protect fish stocks

Hansjörg Grützmacher, Aiwen Lei, Nicolai Cramer, and Herbert Mayr are interviewed this month

Zeolitic imidazolate framework nanoparticles; very effective fluorescent sensing platform for detection of nucleic acid sequences

Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Nagoya University, Japan, takes over the role of President of IUPAC

Dr. Sabine Wiederhold, Editor of Chemie Ingenieur Technik, looks back on the IYC 2011

Synthetic viral capsules can be constructed easily and might be used in highly efficient gene therapy to deliver genetic agents to cells

Statistical mechanics provids new insights into behavior of cholesterol/phospholipid mixtures in cell membranes

Energy and cost of torrefied biomass analyzed

Jan Reedijk discusses how citation metrics are pushing editors, referees, and authors into strategic and sometimes unethical behavior