Startups from nine different countries will collaborate with Merck

Merck’s Innovation Center Welcomes New Startups

New Bacterial Friedel-Crafts Acylase
Structure and catalytic mechanism of a bacterial multicomponent acyltransferase from Pseudomonas protegens (PpATase)

Biosynthesis of New Polyenes
Aspernidgulenes, a new class of polyenes, produced in a fungus

New President of the Polish Chemical Society
Izabela Nowak from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU) is the new President of the Polish Chemical Society (PCS)

Smart Photosensitizers for Effective Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
Iridium(III) complexes for selective glutathione sensing

One-Step Chemical Synthesis of Large Ubiquitin Chains
Native methionine‐1‐linked polymeric ubiquitin chains can be constructed in a single chemical reaction

Fixing Photosynthetic Inefficiencies
More efficient photorespiratory pathways engineered into tobacco while inhibiting the native pathway

Angewandte Chemie 1/2019: Happy New Year
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Fully Automatic Design of 2D DNA Nanostructures
Autonomous sequence allows everybody to design 2D geometries using scaffolded DNA origami and a free-form drawing

Hydrogel Crawls Like an Earthworm
Photoresponsive hydrogel actuator crawls peristaltically upon laser irradiation