Highlights
Pharmaecuticals
Sweetening drug manufacture
22 June 2010An inexpensive, natural sugar provides a cost-effective way to produce a critical ingredient of Tamiflu
Pharmaecuticals
Getting crystal clear about stability
22 June 2010A battery of state-of-the-art tests reveals that tighter solid-state control is needed in the manufacture of a well-known drug used against diabetes
Cancer
Fine-tuning cellular suicide
22 June 2010Increasing the efficacy and minimizing unwanted side effects of cancer gene therapy has been made possible using a new approach
Bacteria
Modeling lights the way
22 June 2010A modeling and simulation study advances the design of microbial fuel cells for power generation and wastewater treatment
Biomaterials
Smooth delivery
22 June 2010Attaching a water-soluble polymer layer to nanometer-sized silica spheres improves their mobility, facilitating drug delivery in the body
Cell Biology
A partnership with growth potential
8 June 2010The interaction points between proteins regulating cell growth could offer promising future targets for fighting cancer
Wireless
Radios learn to share
8 June 2010Radios can broadcast over an already-used frequency without causing interference, by ‘studying’ existing transmissions
Silicon Photonics
A new twist on light
8 June 2010Tiny optical circuits could operate at even higher speeds because of a simple structure that rotates the polarization of light
Nanoparticles
Timely forecasting
8 June 2010Predicting the precise shape of metal nanostructures evaporated on an array of spheres is now possible using a mathematical algorithm
Cells
Getting with the program
8 June 2010Single-cell gene expression profiling reveals specific genetic programs underlying cell differentiation in pre-implantation mouse embryos
Virology
Swine flu under surveillance
8 June 2010An efficient tool for monitoring the emergence and spread of new H1N1 virus variants has been developed in Singapore
Peptides
Accuracy by design
25 May 2010Screening peptide libraries is more accurate and less time consuming thanks to a new algorithm for mass spectrometric analysis
Nanotechnology
Electrical pickup
25 May 2010A novel design promises a sensitive detector of hybrid particles that unite light and charge
