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Issue 8 2008 Chemical Biology now published

21 July 2008

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


Arabidopsis halleri

X-rays make light work of heavy metals

18 July 2008

Shedding light on plants has possible implications for heavy metal decontamination, say Japanese scientists


A beryllium antigen

Instant insight: Beryllium: friend or foe?

16 July 2008

Brian Scott and colleagues examine the molecular basis of chronic beryllium disease


Escherichia coli cells

Why ionic liquids might make you ill

14 July 2008

Infrared study suggests link between ionic liquid accumulation rate and toxicity


Protein ovalbumin tagged with a mercury derivative

Detecting mercurial proteins

10 July 2008

Mercury tags allow European scientists to detect low abundance proteins


Test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Faster superbug detection

07 July 2008

Chip technology could cut the wait for test results on clinical samples, US scientists say


Patricia Bassereau

Interview: Model membranes

02 July 2008

Patricia Bassereau tells Michael Brown about the importance of the membrane in cellular functions


Target-selective photo-degradation

Protein removal on target

25 June 2008

If you're planning to cure a disease by removing a specific protein, how do you make the therapy selective?


Doughnut-shaped particles

Dunking doughnuts into cells

25 June 2008

Rubber-ring-shaped particles may soften the blow from cancer treatments


The fluorescent nucleoside and duplex DNA

Matching nucleosides

20 June 2008

A fluorescent probe can spot the difference between the four DNA bases


An embryo

Instant insight: Chemical developments

16 June 2008

Ilya Shestopalov and James Chen look at how chemistry can be used to probe the earliest processes of life


Protein separation on a gradient gel as a function of protein size and migration time

Sizing up proteins on-chip

13 June 2008

US scientists have formed gels on-chip for easier and cheaper protein separation


Abstract Design

New journal news!

12 June 2008

Announcing two new journals for 2009, and the first online articles for Energy & Environmental Science


Cells captured on a silicon cantilever in a microfluidic channel

Weighing up cells

11 June 2008

How much does a cell weigh? US chemists are using a miniature cantilever to find out