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Douglas Kell

Interview: Quick on the uptake

14 October 2008

Douglas Kell tells Elinor Richards about his findings on drug uptake and the implications for drug discovery and development


Jellyfish

Integrative Biology board member Roger Tsien wins Nobel Prize

08 October 2008

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Roger Tsien, a member of the editorial board for RSC's Integrative Biology


Kerr microscope reading a barcode-labelled DNA sample

The barcode and the bioassay

08 October 2008

Mini-barcodes are used to track DNA samples like luggage at an airport


Disposable chip for non-invasive electrophysiological measurements

Chip measures channel currents

07 October 2008

Non-invasive chip technology offers order-of-magnitude improvement for ion channel studies


A molecular model of a diphenyl urea bound to G4 DNA

Quadruplex binding clicks into place

06 October 2008

Ureas that shun the double helix for four-stranded DNA could lead to new anticancer drugs, say UK scientists


The path of an Escherichia coli cell through a ratchet

Sorting swimming cells

02 October 2008

US scientists are using chip technology to make bacteria sort themselves by size


A 4 × 4 array of cells trapped in a hydrogel

Tiling yields model tissue

01 October 2008

US scientists are mimicking tissue by fixing together tiles of cells


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Issue 10 2008 Chemical Biology now published

01 October 2008

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


A switch

Protein changes at the flick of a switch

29 September 2008

Photoswitches that make proteins change shape could one day be used to test protein function in cells, says Canadian team


Model of a type III secretion apparatus needle

Instant insight: Bacterial nanoinjectors

26 September 2008

Roberto De Guzman explains how some of the world's most deadly pathogens use needles to inject their prey


A carbon nanotube-coated electrode in a polymerase chain reaction

Dip-in DNA detective

24 September 2008

Chinese scientists can monitor the polymerase chain reaction using a new approach to DNA detection


The heart shaped form of human serum albumin

The solution to solve all solution structures?

19 September 2008

Proteins' solution structures are being unravelled by researchers in Italy


Cells grown on an M13 bacteriophage film

Cells take direction from virus

18 September 2008

Liquid crystalline scaffold imparts order on cell arrangement


Apple

Instant insight: Nature's fruitful chemistry

11 September 2008

Bernhard Kräutler and Thomas Müller explain why the changing colour of autumn leaves could be to our advantage