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

Microrobots Assemble Cell Patterns

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

Understanding Biomineralization Systems
Unique composition and architecture of cystoliths, mineralized objects found in the leaves of several plants, discovered

S. Shaik and M. Quack Receive August Wilhelm von Hofmann Gold Medal
Sason Shaik, Israel, and Martin Quack, Switzerland, are awarded the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Gold Medal of the GDCh