Thyroid hormone controls the eye‘s visual pigments throughout life

Thyroid Affects Colour Vision

Dendrimersomes: A New Mode of Drug Delivery?
Amphiphilic branched nanostructures self-assemble in water to form packets capable of mimicking biological membranes

Hollywood Chemistry
And the Winner for the Most Accurate Science in a Movie or TV series goes to …

Charles Lathrop Parson Award
Michael E. Strem, president of high purity chemicals maker Strem Chemicals, receives the ACS award for outstanding public service

Recovering Lignin After Pretreatment
Biofuel production processes that separate cellulose from lignin could also generate lignin feedstock from their waste stream

Hydrogenases – Achievements and Expectations
Special issue of EurJIC looks at some of the recent advances and achievements in the field of hydrogenases research

DNA Robot
Nanoscale robotic arm possible with DNA-based device that can move and lock in eleven distinct positions

Protein for New TB Vaccine
Protein secreted by tuberculosis bacteria is a promising candidate for a new vaccine

Biomarkers for Tuberculosis
Several promising biomarkers to predict who will fall ill from the tuberculosis bacteria have been identified

World TB Day 2011: March 24
World tuberculosis (TB) day commemorates the day the pathogenic bacteria that causes TB was discovered