How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized

Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga, Mansoura University, Egypt, combines zoology and chemistry to develop safer insecticides

It's Gin-Jo's birthday in the Wonderlab and Sophie has arranged a little surprise

Subtle difference between two branches of an important family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels has been examined

Copper surfaces could help prevent outbreaks of new <i>E. coli</i> strains such as the current outbreak in Germany

José L. Alonso, Jin-Quan Yu, Guy Bertrand, and Kenichiro Itami, are interviewed this month

Convenient, color-based method for identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms could allow point-of-care genotyping

Human neurons have been created from skin cells by using transdifferentiation

German-Japanese research team receives Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2011

Daniel J. Mindiola, Dieter Schlüter, Takashi Kato, Buxing Han and are interviewed this month