Every object in the lab has a specific function. But in Wonderlab, when no one is looking, these objects can live a secret second life

Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life

Are Microbes the Future of Bioenergy? – Interview with Gerhard Gottschalk
Professor Gerhard Gottschalk, Germany, discusses his views on bacteria's role in the future of bioenergy

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