Michael Reth receives one of the most prestigious international prizes awarded in Germany in the field of medicine

Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

Why Do the Well-fed Die Young?
A new evolutionary hypothesis for the effect of dietary restriction on lifespan

Smart Nanodevices Against Gliomas
Novel nanodevices selectively target glioma cells and release chemotherapeutics in a controlled manner

Germany's Most Prestigious Research Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 has been awarded to eleven outstanding researchers

Bimodal Nanoprobes to Image Brain Tumors
Bimodal nanoprobes allow accurate fluorescent and magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastomas

Making the Good Much Better Against Cancer
Synthesis, anti-tubulin and antiproliferative structure–activity relationship of steroidomimetic dihydroisoquinolinones

GDCh Prize for Authors and Journalists
Dr. Michael Gross, Oxford, UK, has been awarded by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society)

Inducing the Self-Digestion of Melanoma Cells
A compound that kills melanoma cells through an apoptosis-independent mechanism has been discovered

Asian Plant for Better Vision
Retinal degeneration can be prevented by ethanol extracts of a plant widely cultivated in East Asia

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 3
Looking at the chemical and physiological properties of vitamin C and at how it intervenes in many biochemical processes