Merck KGaA acquires supplier to biopharma industry in China

Merck Acquires Chinese Biopharma Supplier

Happy Birthday Angewandte Chemie!
2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Author Profiles January
K. Peter C. Vollhard, Hans-Günther Schmalz, J. Antoine Baceiredo, and Herbert Waldmann, are interviewed this month

Protein Expression Leads to Metastasis
Correlation between protein expression and capacity of tumor cells to metastasize could lead to personalized cancer treatment

Wild Strawberries Sequenced
New pattern recognition program helps identify protein-coding genes to decode genome of woodland strawberry

Don’t Waste Waste Chemicals
Substance found in compost shown to degrade organic pollutants

Viral ZnO Nanoparticles
Binding ZnO nanoparticles to polyhedrosis virus suitable for biological applications such as surface display technologies

Hydrogels – Enhanced Swelling Ratios
Unique strategy enabled the preparation of highly swelling and rapidly deswelling hydrogels - potential applicability as biomaterials

Elution Teases Proteins from Tissue
Competitive elution selectively pulls proteins from tissue and avoids false-positives

Transgenic Pollen Screening
A fast, simple and high-throughput method in which flow cytometry is employed, is able to count 5,000 pollen grains per minute