Professor Gerhard Gottschalk, Germany, discusses his views on bacteria's role in the future of bioenergy

Are Microbes the Future of Bioenergy? – Interview with Gerhard Gottschalk

Golden Bullets for Cancer
Alkynyl phosphine gold complexes show antiproliferative effects in tumor cells, enzyme inhibition, and influence angiogenesis

Microrobots Assemble Cell Patterns
Optically generated vapor bubbles make hydrogel microrobots move; a novel new way of creating non-mechanical microbots

Fluorescent Investigations
Aplyronine A’s mechanism of action investigated using its fluorescent derivative

Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month

Protein on the Edge
Lysozyme is detected voltammetrically at the water/ionic liquid interface

Direction Selection
New method for template-directed DNA synthesis in the 3’ and 5’ directions could help explain origin of life

Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property
Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA

Influence of Advancing Ice Melt
Influence of the widespread glacial melting and rapid rise in freshwater inflow on marine algae along the west coast of Greenland