Polymer gel microcapsules can oscillate in and out depending on pH, offering potential for regular, self-medicating devices

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics has been awarded to Wolfgang Helfrich and Carlos Bustamante

Proteins have existed for billions of years, yet their photolytically weak sulfide bridges can be cleaved by light, so how do they persist?

What are the basic principles and rules of academic research?

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

With stiff competition for Ph.D. positions, mediocre student Jin-Jo is advised by his Wonderlab colleagues to get his application in early

Horst Feldmann, Germany, discusses the past and future of yeast research to explain why this mircoorganism is so important

A new model suggests how melanopsin, a non-visual pigment in the eye, responds to blue light and controls our body clock 

Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and Corey R. J. Stephenson, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, awarded

Several hundred novel proteins, many of which surprisingly small, were identified in herpesvirus