Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

Discovery could lead to faster recovery from injury, illnessCredit: (Photo credit: Edwin Aguirre for UMass Lowell) LOWELL, Mass. - Eggshells ...

Natural antioxidant helps improve immune-based therapies by modulating T-cells

Credit: Emma Vought, Medical University of South Carolina Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. and Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D., National Institutes of Health-funded researchers ...

On the way to nanotheranostics

Credit: S. Gerber (EPFL) Theranostics is an emerging field of medicine whose name is a combination of "therapeutics" and "diagnostics". ...

Human waste an asset to economy, environment, study finds

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Human waste might be an unpleasant public health burden, but scientists ...

One-molecule-thick coating to help improve disease and drug testing

A new breakthrough has the potential to improve sensors used to test for diseases and detect doping in sportsCredit: Dr. ...

Producing graphene from carbon dioxide

Direct synthesis of technological material graphene from greenhouse gas carbon dioxide -- Publication in ChemSusChemCredit: E. Moreno-Pineda, KIT The general ...

Development of 3D particle model for single particles in battery electrodes

Development of 3D electrochemical model to improve battery energy density and efficiency of electric vehiclesCredit: DGIST A model that can ...

Window film could even out the indoor temperature using solar energy

Credit: Kasper Moth-Poulsen/Chalmers University of Technology A window film with a specially designed molecule could be capable of taking the ...

Transformed tobacco fields could cuts costs for medical proteins

Credit: John Munson, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - A new Cornell University-led study describes the first successful rearing of engineered ...

Researchers save images not with a microchip, but with metabolites

Small molecules can encode data from an image and be read with over 98 percent accuracyWriting and reading data encoded ...

Bacteria engineered as Trojan horse for cancer immunotherapy

Programmable bacteria clear tumors in mouse models, and also treat distant tumors that were not injected; this novel method could ...

Superbug virulence regulatory mechanism revealed: Pave ways for developing new antibiotics

Credit: City University of Hong Kong As antibiotic resistance is growing and posing a threat on public health, developing new ...

DGIST Discovers control of cell signaling using a cobalt (iii)-nitrosyl complex

Credit: DGIST Two professors' joint research team discovered how to synthesize new materials to deliver nitric oxide, which controls cell ...

Researchers design superhydrophobic ‘nanoflower’ for biomedical applications

The water repelling characteristic that plants possess inspired Texas A&M researchers to develop a way to control the hydrophobicity of ...

New chemical tools to modify and study biomolecules

Credit: J. Waser/B. Fierz (EPFL) Understanding the structure and metabolism of cells and living organisms is essential for the development ...

Proteins trapped in glass could yield new medicinal advances

Credit: Small: Volume 15, Issue 24, Atom Probe Tomography for 3D Structural and Chemical Analysis of Individual Proteins Gustav Sundell, ...

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