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A tau protein clump

Probing protein aggregation

02 July 2009

NMR used to follow Alzheimer's-linked tau protein as it tangles


A zirconium oxide nanosurface

Size matters to stem cells

30 June 2009

Nanosurface topography can be more important than chemistry


Drug release from a tannic acid-micelle film

Brewing a drug delivery platform

26 June 2009

A tea compound has been used to prepare a drug-releasing film with anticancer properties


An individual vesicle

Printing artificial cells

19 June 2009

In a step towards cell mimics, an inkjet printer is being used to make lipid-coated balls containing proteins


A particle passing through diagonal ridges

Stiff resolution for cells

17 June 2009

Implications for cancer diagnosis as US researchers suggest ridged channels will separate hard and soft cells


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Issue 7 2009 Chemical Biology now published

16 June 2009

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


Norepinephrine in the binding site of an NET protein

Instant insight: Recognising antidepressants

10 June 2009

Kristian Strømgaard considers why a small change in an antidepressant can dramatically change its target in the brain


Respiratory syncytial virus

A beacon of hope for childhood infection

09 June 2009

Sensitive approach allows naked eye detection of respiratory virus


Wilfred van der Donk

Interview: The frontiers of medicine

04 June 2009

Wilfred van der Donk tells Rachel Cooper about investigating enzymes and the choice between history and science


A culture of rare bacterium Paenibacillus curdlanolyticus

Culturing rare microbes

01 June 2009

Getting Escherichia coli to grow may be easy enough, but how do you encourage less common species in a microbe mixture?


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29 May 2009

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Preosteoblasts on a CPP-modified surface

Electricity generates implant coating with potential

22 May 2009

A way to make medical implants last longer makes them more biocompatible than at first thought


Surfactant-stabilised droplets

Cell sorting sorted

21 May 2009

Catching cells in droplets has enabled scientists to make a highly efficient microchip to separate cells


Optical stretcher

Instant insight: Squashing cancer cells

18 May 2009

Could stretching cells be the way to diagnose cancer? Claudia Brunner takes a biomechanical approach to medicine