Bleach-induced transformation for humidity-durable air filters
Credit: DGIST Adding hydroquinone, a skin-bleaching ingredient, to a well-known 'metal organic framework' changes its copper ions in a way ...
Tag: Biotechnology
Natural ingredients in supplements, nutraceuticals get a new type of barcode
Increasingly, shoppers are choosing nutraceuticals, cosmetics and herbal remedies with natural ingredients, and these products are readily available in many ...
Making music from proteins (video)
Credit: Video Credit - American Chemical Society Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, ...
Translating proteins into music, and back
By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and create new variationsCredit: Zhao Qin and Francisco ...
We need to talk about chloramphenicol — how does this antibiotic cause damage to eukaryotes?
For the first time scientists demonstrate the molecular events underlying the effects of chloramphenicol on eukaryotic cells A group of ...
Biochip advances enable next-generation sequencing technologies
A review of advances in biochip technology shows it's playing a fundamental role promoting the use of next-generation DNA sequencing ...
Salk Institute’s Patrick Hsu named an MIT Technology Review 2019 Innovator Under 35
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 25, 2019) The Salk Institute announced that Helmsley-Salk Fellow Patrick Hsu has been named to ...
First in vivo proof-of-concept in Steinert’s myotonic dystrophy
Ana Buj Bello's team, a researcher in an Inserm unit at Genethon, the AFM-Telethon laboratory, has made the proof-of-concept of ...
Dung beetles get wind
Insects use different environmental cues to find their way in African bushCredit: Chris Collinridge/Wits University Researchers have shown for the ...
Tapping into the way cells communicate
A new technology discovered by UConn School of Dental Medicine researchers records cellular communication in real time - providing a ...
Engineering enzymes to turn plant waste into sustainable products
Credit: Stefan Venter, UPIX Photography A new family of enzymes has been engineered to perform one of the most important ...
Advanced computational modeling of the gut for biodefense
BLACKSBURG, VA, June 19, 2019 - The Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) has developed a high-resolution model of ...
Speeding up single-cell genomics research
Improved single-cell ATAC-seq method scales up research into how genes are controlled Scientists at Harvard University, collaborating with researchers at ...
Broad Institute researchers use novel field-ready CRISPR platform to detect plant genes
Credit: ©2012, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 24, 2019--SHERLOCK technology is a new CRISPR-based platform that ...
SLAS Discovery announces its July feature article, ‘3D Cell-Based Assays for Drug Screens: Challenges in Imaging, Image Analysis, and High-Content Analysis’
Credit: David James Group Oak Brook, IL - In July's SLAS Discovery feature article, "3D Cell-Based Assays for Drug Screens: ...
Helping the body’s ability to grow bone
Credit: University of Portsmouth For the first time, scientists have been able to study how well synthetic bone grafts stand ...
Frozen sperm retains its viability in outer space conditions
Human sperm samples exposed to microgravity are just as active and concentrated as on Earth Vienna, 24 June 2019: Zillionaires ...
Virtual reality takes a leap into taste
Credit: Diogo Matias, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown The fly hasn't eaten for an entire day and it's starving. Finally, ...
New York Genome Center awarded $1.5M CZI grant for single-cell analysis toolkit
Combining multimodal methods to identify disease-causing genes of interest and extract more information at significantly reduced cost NEW YORK, NY ...
Reason to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, June 21, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline ...
