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Knowles, Noyori, and Sharpless gain recognition for their work in chirality, and the pharmaceutical and industrial use of single-enantiomer compounds. The Nobel prize winners have been lauded for their contributions to chemical research; their photographs accompany the article.

The article discusses research that is receiving criticism from the dietary supplements industry, basically that colchicine is present in some packages of commercial dietary supplements such as Ginkgo biloba and that it accumulates in the placental blood of pregnant women using the supplements.

The article discusses the development of a technique for designing antibody-ligand complexes that show a level of affinity much greater than that of the protein avidin for the coenzyme biotin.

A convenient new method for separating products from reaction mixtures has been developed by researchers at the university of Pittsburgh. Reactants are drawn into and precipitated out of solution by 'precipitons'. The technology makes greater use of solution-phase synthesis as opposed to solid-phase organic synthesis.

Research has shown that major increases in peptide stability can be caused by using polyfluorinated amino acid derivatives instead of hydrophobic amino acid residues. The increased stability could impact design applications.

The article discusses two research groups that have developed improved methods for creating proteins containing unnatural amino acids. The two methods are the auxotroph method and the stop codon suppression method.

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute discovered a catalytic antibody that increases enediyne cyclization to form a quinone product in the aqueous buffer. Now researchers will need to determine what causes the DNA damage of enediyne antibiotics and anticancer agents.

An automated oligosaccharide synthesis called OptiMer has been developed by Chi-Huey Wong and co-workers at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. The technique achieves an antigenic hexasaccharide synthesis in days what ordinarily takes months by conventional means.

A technique that improves the sensitivity achieved in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of quadrupolar nuclei has been developed by French and U.S. scientists.

Researchers are trying to find a rapid accurate bioassay to ascertain BSE or vCJD infection. In the EU, antibody-based tests are being researched by the Platelia Test of Bio-Rad with the French Atomic Energy Commission; Chemiluminescence ELISA test by Enfer Scientific and Abbott Lab; and the Prionics-Check of Oesch and Prionics.

Researchers at California's Stanford University made groundbreaking discoveries in silicon wafer technology over 20 years ago. Scientists revealed the latest innovations in chip devices design at the Pittcon 2001 trade conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The article discusses research that has led to the development of a synthetic method for combining carbohydrate antigens in the same molecule, which could lead to a new generation of vaccines.