The EU 7th Framework Project looks at the industrial feasibility of turning biomass into fuels, chemical intermediates, polymers, and materials
Introducing BIOCORE – The Biorefinery Feasibility Project
Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life
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
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