Heavy metal pollution in humans: supermagnetic nanocomposite effectively removes cadmium ions from blood

Removing Cd2+ From Blood

Is Vacuum Cleaning Healthy?
Vacuum cleaner emissions as a source of indoor exposure to airborne particles and bacteria

Wonderlab Comic — Fashion Chemistry
The naming of the new elements causes a stir in the Wonderlab

Boyle’s Law: 350th Anniversary
This year marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Boyle’s law which describes how the pressure and volume of a gas are related

Fluorescence-Enhanced Detection of Nucleic Acids
Zeolitic imidazolate framework nanoparticles; very effective fluorescent sensing platform for detection of nucleic acid sequences

New Technique for Marking Fish Populations
Dual-isotope procedure that allows tracking of individual fish and their offspring could help protect fish stocks

Angewandte Author Profiles January
Hansjörg Grützmacher, Aiwen Lei, Nicolai Cramer, and Herbert Mayr are interviewed this month

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

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

Design Effective Figures for Scientific Publications
A brief guide to designing effective figures for the scientific paper created by University of Washington scientists