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Artificial Virus Offers Prospects for Delivery of Pharmaceuticals

Researchers from Wageningen UR, together with colleagues from the University of Leiden, Eindhoven University of Technology and Radboud University Nijmegen, have successfully developed an artificial virus.

1 Sep 2014

NSF Grant to Help Study How DNA Travels Through Carbon Nanotubes

A Binghamton University physicist’s experiments may one day lead to sophisticated sensors that are able to detect small amounts of dangerous materials rapidly.

30 Aug 2014

New Range of Ultra-High Quality Gold Nanoparticles from Innova Biosciences

Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, announced today the commercial launch of InnovaGOLD, a new range of ultra-high quality gold nanoparticles that have demonstrated improved sensitivity, stability and reproducibility in immunoassays compared to other commercially available gold colloids.

30 Aug 2014

Virus Particles and Proteins Can be Combined to Form Crystals

Almost a hundred years ago in 1929 Linus Pauling presented the famous Pauling’s Rules to describe the principles governing the structure of complex ionic crystals. These rules essentially describe how the arrangement of atoms in a crystal is critically dependent on the size of the atoms, their charge and type of bonding.

30 Aug 2014

Bioparallel Chemistry Approach Activates Essential Metabolism Compound Inside Cells

A so-called bioparallel chemistry approach is successfully used to image and activate an essential metabolism compound inside a cell.

From National Institute for Materials Science 30 Aug 2014

Nano-Channels Can Help Unravel Tangled Mass of DNA

A simple and effective way of unravelling the often tangled mass of DNA is to “thread” the strand into a nano-channel. A study carried out with the participation of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste used simulations to measure the characteristics that this channel should have in order to achieve maximum efficiency.

21 Aug 2014

Researchers Capture and Release Single-Cells

Scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have figured out how to pick up and transfer single cells using a pipette -- a common laboratory tool that's been tweaked slightly. They describe this engineering feat and preliminary test results in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

20 Aug 2014