Closely related microRNAs can be detected selectively with new 5' quinolone cap

Put Your 5'-Cap on for Sensitive Detection

Guidelines for Isotope and Gas Ratios
The terminology and concepts behind the terms for expressing relative differences in stable isotope ratios have been clarified

Gautam Desiraju New IUCr President
Gautam Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has been elected President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Angewandte Chemie 40/2011: Tying the Knot
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Detecting Analytes in Natural Solutions
Detection of target analytes in the presence of interfering biomolecules possible with nanoparticles-within-nanoshell design

Adulterated Herbal Viagra
Men's health products labeled as "potency" pills illegally laced with unlicenced analogs of the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Voting Results Friday 23 September
Results for Friday 23 September of predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Make your predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry here

Rudolf Mössbauer (1929 – 2011)
Rudolf Mössbauer, Nobel Prize winner best known for the effect that is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy, has passed away

You're Studying What by MALDI-TOFMS!?
M. Wyatt, National Mass Spectrometry Service Centre, UK, looks at why MALDI-TOFMS analysis of organometallic complexes is so uncommon