POSTS TAGGED AS biochemistry

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”

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

The Glowing Marmoset

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

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

Prasanna de Silva, PhD
Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) Professor Prasanna de Silva is renowned for developing “catch and [MORE]

Get a Microgrip

Microgripper
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

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

Early Air-Purifier

Dr. Zhu Huai Yong
Considering the unwashed faithful who filled medieval cathedrals, those inspiring hearths must have been pretty stinky.  Then [MORE]

Soothing Nurses’ Feet

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