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

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

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

Substance found in compost shown to degrade organic pollutants

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

Unique strategy enabled the preparation of highly swelling and rapidly deswelling hydrogels - potential applicability as biomaterials

Competitive elution selectively pulls proteins from tissue and avoids false-positives

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

Phosphatidylserine lipid photoaffinity cross-linking probes synthesized for identification of novel receptors (discovery biology, anti-inflammatory therapeutics, cellular delivery)

Testing of cellulase-based methods for converting cellulose into glucose may be increased with new screening technique