Wilhelm T. S. Huck discusses what change means for scientists and how his research has evolved to the study of small water droplets

Learning a New Language: Moving Countries and Changing Subjects

Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks
A library of novel 5-nitroimidazole antibiotics displayed broad-spectrum activity

Olive Oil for Better Health
Oleic acid, the main fatty acid of olive oil, has possible health promoting effects in men

What's in a Label?
Many commercial medicinal herbal products contain potentially harmful ingredients that are not listed in the labels

90th Birthday: Carl Djerassi
Inventor of oral contraceptive pill celebrates 90th birthday on October 29, 2013

Capturing Cancer Cells with Graphene Oxide Nanosheets
A new chip based on graphene oxide nanosheets detects circulating tumor cells with high specificity and sensitivity

Scientists (of the World) Behave!
Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

A Transport to be Forbidden
Mycobacteria tuberculosis infections could be blocked by targeting the amino acid transporter AnsP1

A Fluorescent Guide to the Right Treatment
5-Amminolevulinic acid can be use to optimize the allocation of gliomas patients to the correct post-operative treatment

Food and Nutrition Research Trends and Strategies
Major topics in nutrition and health are moving closer together with research focussing, e.g., on olfaction and intestinal metagenomics