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Synthetic materials mimic living creatures

June 24, 2020
Northwestern University researchers have developed a family of soft materials that imitates living creatures.When hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive -- bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces....

Laboratory News Podcast episode #1

June 17, 2020
Narwhal song with Evgeny Podolskiy

Global alliance for collaborative digital health

June 10, 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, today launched a new series of programs to help organisations collaborate on...

Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule

June 9, 2020
Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions with a 3D printed capsule controlled by magnetic fields thanks to advances made by University of Sussex...

New MIT protein production protocol will speed up drug delivery

June 1, 2020
MIT chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long. The flow-based technology could speed up drug development and allow scientists to design...

New technique for higher resolution molecular imaging and analysis

June 1, 2020
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method to conduct spectroscopic nanoscopy, an approach that could help researchers understand more complicated biomolecular interactions and characterize cells and diseases...

Tracking the physics of biological cells using nanodevices (video)

May 27, 2020
For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interior of mammalian cells, giving an unprecedented peek into the processes that govern the beginning of development....

Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer

May 27, 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzyme which becomes catalytically active when exposed to blue light and which immediately triggers a reaction...

Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria

May 26, 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid material system combining nanocomposite and bacteria for power generation.

What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim explains how evolution can give us a Pharmaceutical short-cut.

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