Isolated from sponges and cytotoxic against cancer – madangamines share a diazatricyclic core which has now been synthesized

Mad for Madangamines

Polymer International Award
Professor Molly Stevens, Imperial College London, receives the second Polymer International-IUPAC award

Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Carbon Capture and Sequestration – Special Issue of ChemSusChem edited by Christopher W. Jones and Edward J. Maginn

Hungry Cells
Yeast cells measure their energy reserves with the aid of a sensor. It determines whether they can grow and divide

Fight Multiresistant Bacteria
Bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotic classes should be worried about the three new platencin analogues

Ferryman for RNA
Protein that ferries RNA into cell's mitochondria discovered and could lead to new treatments for disease

Mess-ter Comic — Retrosynthesis
A new comic series by Sophie Lin: In part 1 she depicts the retrosynthetic analysis and her life during her master’s training

Microscopic Firewalls
Synthetic nacre, or mother of pearl, acts as a heat shield forming a porous foam with an armored skin

Prevention Better Than Cure
Preventing blood supply to tumors could prevent cancer, or turn existing cancer into a chronic disease

CHEManager Europe August
Highlights from this month's CHEManager Europe