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The article presents a practical clinical diagnostic technique by George M. Whitesides and his coworkers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their photolithography technique is a low-cost, portable, and simple multiplexed bioassays out of paper that can detect clinical relevant concentrations of glucose and protein. It involves soaking chromatography paper in photoresist, using a mask and ultraviolet light.

The article offers information on the American Chemical Society (ACS) bylaw governing the paper presentations during their society meetings. It mentions that Bylaw VI, Section 6 states that the term paper is included in any scientific presentation and it will not be exhibited at any meeting except when its author and title are both present in the program. Information on the paper presentation programs at the ACS National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on August 22-26, 2010 is also presented.

Profiles chemist Robert S. Langer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Production of research papers and books; Focus on polymer preparations for biomedical application; Awarding of the Draper Prize given by the National Academy of Engineering.

Focuses on the rules of organic reactions developed by professors Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann from the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basis of the rules on orbital symmetry; Overview of the research papers of Woodward and Hoffmann; Impact of the papers of Woodward and Hoffmann on the study of organic reactions.

The article focuses on the physiological aspects of brain freeze, a condition that arises from the sudden intake of cold foods and drinks and also discusses the commitment of traffic violation. Scientists at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts are conducting an experiment to find the correlation between headache and cold drink intake. Physicist Dmitri Krioukov of the University of California, San Diego published a mathematics paper to plead his innocence in a traffic violation.

This section offers news briefs related to chemistry. Conceptual artist Matthew Mazzotta of Cambridge, Massachusetts developed a digester for dog-park feces, which uses organic material and anaerobic bacteria to produce methane. The online marketplace Etsy offers Crayola crayons with chemical labels created by chemical educator Charlene Sabin. Italian researchers have identified 20 barley proteins and more than 40 proteins from yeast species in samples of Italian beer using combinatorial peptide ligand library (CPLL) technology and mass spectrometry.