Chelation enhanced fluorescence of amino acids helps illuminate kinase activity in cancer cells

Lighting the Way

Ensuring Bite-Free Picnics
Understanding the chemistry behind insect repellants could help chemists design alternatives to DEET and its ilk

How do Bacteria Smell?
Bacteria are able to sense airborne volatile metabolites produced by neighboring bacterial cultures and respond in a coordinated way

Impressions from the ACS Meeting
Snapshots of the ACS Meeting, as seen from the Wiley booth

Brain Food
Eating blueberries, strawberries, or walnuts may help the aging brain stay healthy by restoring the brain’s cleaning mechanism

Hair Today
Hair follicles track the body’s clock, giving information about the 24-hour circadian clock that regulates our sleeping habits

Eat Fish for Healthy Eyes
Carotenoids and omega-3 fatty acids play important roles for keeping eyes health

Best Paper Award 2010
The Journal of Peptide Science announces the winner of the Best Paper Award for 2010

Entry Denied
Identification of entry inhibitor could lead to HIV being stopped before it enters the cell

Agelastatin Activity
The biologically active agelastatins have succumbed to an efficient total synthesis on the gram scale opening up their potential as anticancer drugs