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Skin cells on a temperature-responsive gel

Sticky polymers for wound healing

23 October 2009

Promise for tissue regeneration therapy as temperature-responsive gels help move cells from A to B


Escherichia coli cells cultured on a chip with endothelial cells

Culture clash for good and bad bacteria

23 October 2009

Lab-on-a-chip that co-cultures cells from the human gut offers screening for probiotics


A methylated bismuth compound

A piece in the puzzle of bismuth toxicology

21 October 2009

Liver cells transform inorganic bismuth into potentially toxic methylated species


Bacillus subtilis

Strategic screening for drugs

16 October 2009

US scientists are targeting an enzyme essential to bacterial metabolism in the search for new antibiotics


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Issue 11 2009 Highlights in Chemical Biology now published

15 October 2009

Drawing together coverage from all RSC publications, providing an overview of the latest developments in chemical biology


Frances Arnold

Interview: Evolving evolution

14 October 2009

Frances Arnold is using evolution to improve on nature's designs


A tumour subjected to radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and antiangiogenesis

Instant insight: Triple therapy to target tumours

12 October 2009

Good things come in threes when it comes to cancer therapy


A water flea, Daphnia magna

Taking fleas for a spin

06 October 2009

French scientists have taken NMR spectra of live water fleas


A biological cell in comparison with a synthetic mimic

Instant insight: Making synthetic cells

05 October 2009

Cell and organelle mimics typically perform one simple function. Frank Caruso and colleagues contemplate more complicated systems


Close up of wells on a chip containing cells and a fluorescent reporter

Screening genes from clones - fast

01 October 2009

A high throughput genetic screening method could lead to personalised treatment for genetic diseases, claim Swedish scientists


A quantum dot producing reactive oxygen species

Topical treatment for quantum dots?

01 October 2009

Singlet oxygen release suggests cancer therapy use for dopamine-bound nanoparticles


A polymer-protein micelle

A biological approach to drug delivery

21 September 2009

An all-in-one approach to prepare tumour-targeting polymer spheres has been developed by Korean scientists


Martien Cohen Stuart

Interview: Making soft matter

16 September 2009

Martien Cohen Stuart on soft matter, music and fruit trees


Schematic diagram ARCUT

Cutting and pasting with the human genome

16 September 2009

A DNA cutting tool that can manipulate human genomic DNA could find use in gene therapy, say Japanese scientists


A silicon wafer chip containing V-shaped mirrored trenches

Scrutinising cells with mirrors

08 September 2009

A reflective chip is being used to track biological processes in 3D inside living cells


Jellyfish Aequorea victoria

Instant insight: Lighting up biology

04 September 2009

Jellyfish have changed science. Marc Zimmer sheds light on GFP and the research behind 2008's Nobel Prize in Chemistry


A beta-hairpin peptide and RNA intercalator conjugate

Two-pronged approach to RNA binding

04 September 2009

Linking ligands gives RNA binder far better than the sum of its parts


A kidney on a microfluidic device

Kidney on a chip

26 August 2009

Scientists in Korea are mimicking the conditions kidney cells experience in the body to grow the cells in a microfluidic device


Castor beans

Anti-terror antibodies

26 August 2009

European scientists have developed a method to detect potential biological warfare agents in food


A miniprotein

Targeting the androgen receptor

20 August 2009

Computer-aided design finds proteins that bind receptor linked to prostate cancer