Ryoji Noyori Introduces RIKEN, Japan’s flagship institution for comprehensive scientific research

A highly successful vaccine against a heroin high developed and its therapeutical potential proven in animal models

Cadmium selenide quantum dots degrade in soil and release their toxic guts

Since 1908 glutamate is known as the fifth taste and found in seaweed broth, asparagus, tomato, cheese, meat

Chemical evolution generates bacterial strain with artificial nucleotide in its genome

Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Water use to grow and process biomass feedstocks for fuels has emerged as an important controversy

Optimization of cell factories like Aspergillus niger might help replace the chemical building blocks derived from petroleum

Engineering of globular proteins has allowed to make solvent-free liquids comprising structurally and functionally intact biomolecules

Local unpairing of DNA strands probed by binuclear ruthenium complexes