Nano Reviews in its 4th Volume N ano Reviews now in its 4th volume is a unique Open Access international journal which publishes articles in the fields of nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and single-molecule research, and has successfully published cutting-edge research results and reviews in these areas over the past three years (vols. 1 3). The importance of nanoscience and nan...

The Fourth Great Wall Symposium held in September 2015, in Florence, Italy featured the latest advances in the field of peptidoglycan metabolism. We hosted one keynote lecture by Waldemar Vollmer in honor of Joachim-Volker Höltje. The meeting was organized around six different sessions with 22 speakers and 12 short talks selected from the submitted abstracts. The meeting attracted a great deal ...

HYDROXYUREA is a cytotoxic drug which has recently been investigated as a therapeutic agent in a number of malignant conditions, e.g. cancer of the head and neck (Beckloff, 1967), and leukaemia especially chronic myeloid leukaemia (Malpas, 1967; Weil and Tanzer, 1967). It is not a new compound but has only recently been screened for activity against cancer. It is believed that the activity of h...