POSTS TAGGED AS biochemistry

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals into multiple [MORE]

Nanoscale Lipid Vesicle Platform for Millions of Tests on One Chip

The ability to make incredibly small containers from phospholipids (liposomes) has been known since the early 1960’s, and has [MORE]

Lipid Biosensor for Protein-Protein Interactions

It’s no small trick to quantify lipid-membrane concentrations in living cells, but University of Illinois chemist Wonhwa Cho has [MORE]

A New Twist on the Biochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease

For many years, neuroscientists have focused on the role amyloid beta plays in the plaques and tangles of neurons [MORE]

Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer

German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John Simpson developed the [MORE]

Robotic Cells to Fight Cancer

In the not too distant future, robotic cells may be able to target tumors, and perhaps, even kill them. At [MORE]

Methacetin Breath-Test for Predicting Hep-C Survivability

13C-methacetin, an isotope labeled analygesic, has been used to diagnose liver disease because it quantitatively evaluates cytochrome P450-dependent liver function.  [MORE]

Drug-Infused Nanoparticles

Based on pioneering work Robert Langer (MIT) has done with self-assembling polymers, BIND Biosciences (Cambridge, MA) is carrying out [MORE]

“Surgical Smoke”

When surgeons use electroscalpels, which cut and cauterize, puffs of smoke come off the tissue.  Professor Zoltán Takáts, at Justus [MORE]

The Glowing Marmoset

Tricky ethical issues aside, Japanese researchers have created a transgenic marmoset, with a green fluorescent gene expression from jellyfish, which [MORE]

Insight on Alzheimer’s

Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have found that endothelin converting enzyme-2 plays a role, along with Aβ peptide [MORE]

Protein Biochips

Materials scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Germany have developed a thin hydrogel biochip that can [MORE]

Supramolecular Plaster

Researchers at the Wuhan University’s College of Chemistry and Molecular Science in China have developed an antibacterial plaster that they [MORE]

Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring

Solianis Monitoring AG (Zurich, Switzerland) has recently completed a study of its wearable, noninvasive, multisensor glucose monitor that tracks blood [MORE]

“Logic Gate” Molecules

Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) Professor Prasanna de Silva is renowned for developing “catch and tell” fluorescent molecules [MORE]

Get a Microgrip

Johns Hopkins University engineering professor David Gracias demonstrated his “microgripper” at the American Chemical Society meeting last month.  It [MORE]

Wendelin Stark Develops Antibacterial Plastic Film

Wendelin Stark, a chemical engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has developed a film coating [MORE]

Early Air-Purifier

Considering the unwashed faithful who filled medieval cathedrals, those inspiring hearths must have been pretty stinky.  Then again, maybe not.  [MORE]

Soothing Nurses’ Feet

Might there be a link between nurses being on their feet for long hours, and retention of nurses ranking higher [MORE]