Chempod

Every other month the Nature journals are publishing a FREE audio show, 'ChemPod', specifically for the chemistry community, from interviews with Nobel Prize winners, to discussions on nanotechnology research and much, much more...

The shows will feature important research from the Nature journals as well as interviews with the people behind the science, in-depth commentary, location reports and analysis from journalists covering chemistry around the world.

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For complete access to the original papers featured in the Chempod, subscribe to Nature, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Materials, Nature Methods and Nature Nanotechnology.

To download a show to your computer, right click the Audio link and select 'Save target as/Save link as' and save the file to your computer or a CD.

• 2008 podcasts

  • January/February 2008: Audio (mp3 file)

    In this show, we find out how DNA is helping researches build crystals out of nanoparticles, discover a clever chemical trick for manipulating uranium, explore the controversial field of DNA conductivity and talk to chemist Bruce Gibb about re-building life and lab after hurricane Katrina.

• 2007 podcasts

  • October/November 2007: Audio (mp3 file)

    In this show, find out about an exciting new approach to mass spectrometry, how tiny graphite particles replace biological membranes to couple redox enzymes and we speak to Nobel prize winner Richard Schrock about metathesis.

  • August/September 2007: Audio (mp3 file)

    In this show, we discover a new enzyme working in a surprising way, explore why chemists make molecules that mimic nature, find out how to fish for drug targets with high-throughput screening, and meet Roald Hoffmann, who shows us the poetic side of the ACS meeting in Boston.

  • June/July 2007: Audio (mp3 file)

    In this show Gareth Mitchell keeps an eye out for how our eyes work, takes a tour of the chemistry blogosphere, and speaks to Nobel prize winner Harry Kroto about whether the British government is killing chemistry.

• 2006 podcasts

  • September 2006: Audio (mp3 file)

    Simon Frantz delves into the chemistry behind microscopic tags, molecular handedness, improving DNA and RNA, protease drugs and suicidal cancer cells.

  • March 2006: Audio (mp3 file)

    Dr Chris Smith investigates the science behind The firefly light, biomolecular labelling, polymeric transistors, DNA self assembly and nanotechnology, microfluidics and sulfur chemistry.