An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2012

MRI systems with high relaxivities and long luminescence lifetimes also suitable for time-gated fluorescence imaging

New insights in mechanism of brain damage caused by repeated stress and how to prevent this

Permanently cross-linked hydrogels engineered to exhibit self-healing in an aqueous environment, promising for wound closure of gastric mucosa

Manfred Scheer, Uwe Rosenthal, Shuit-Tong Lee, and Michael M. Haley are interviewed this month

Newly discovered gene mutation sparks hope for effective endometriosis screening

Study highlights importance of graphene nanoplatelet shape as driver for toxicity

Orexin receptor antagonist developed by Merck and currently in phase II trials promising for treating insomnia

A new lead for antimalarial drugs has been developed through structure-activity studies on the GlaxoSmithkline database