Instant Insight: Making sense of DNAzymes

01 May 2008

Itamar Willner and colleagues from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, discuss the applications of DNA-based enzymes.

People power

25 April 2008

Duncan Graham tells Nina Notman just how important people are for the future of science.

On-chip suction stops worm wiggling

30 April 2008

Scientists in the US have developed a microfluidic method for immobilising worms in fractions of a second, allowing them to be used in high throughput studies of disease.

Hydrogel helps the medicine go down

20 May 2008

US scientists have made an easy-to-swallow device to controllably deliver cancer drugs into the body.

Finding the reaction rates for a particle-in-a-chip

23 April 2008

How does trapping a nanoparticle in a microdevice affect its reactions? US scientists are answering this question thanks to a straightforward method using fluorescent tags.

10 minute diagnosis on the microscale

15 April 2008

Scientists in the US have taken a step towards faster and more efficient immunoassays for diagnosing HIV and other diseases.

Catalyst mimics nature's methane oxidation

07 May 2008

Scientists in France have developed the first mild, enzyme-inspired method to convert methane to industrially valuable products

Low energy light source for on-chip construction

08 May 2008

For the first time, scientists have used ultra violet light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) to make polymer columns in lab-on-a-chip devices.

Spray-on electrodes

15 May 2008

Scientists have developed a quicker method to make multilayered electrodes for fuel cells.

Emerging Investigators in chemical- and systems-biology

Highlighting the brightest new researchers in the field, issue 6 of Molecular BioSystems (MBS) is not to be missed!