Schematic illustrating the procedure of converting a 2D nanofiber mat into a cylinder-shaped nanofiber scaffold with (a) a hollow tube-shaped mold for a cylindrical shape…
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An artist’s representation of a free-energy landscape and two possible paths a protein might follow (left) to fold correctly and a third path (right) that…
(Click image for full view.) Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for a rapid…
There’s a new disease-detecting technology in the lab of Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD PhD, and its No. 1 source of data is number one. And…
Hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will need to be produced worldwide, so the researchers made sure up front that their process was scalable.…
The first situation to simulate is of someone coughing indoors. Photo: Petteri Peltonen / Aalto University The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out…
New technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer,…
Illinois researchers found that crumpling graphene in DNA sensors made it tens of thousands of times more sensitive, making it a feasible platform for liquid…
The golden color illustrates the deposition of biocompatible polymers on two genetically targeted neurons at right, sparing neighboring cells. The selective deposition of these polymers,…
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have created a new technique that utilizes photolithography and programmable DNA to rapidly “print” two-dimensional arrays of cells and proteins…
Mixtures of POPs (green) and ELPs (blue) can be used to create a variety of new microparticle architectures including porous particles (left) and ‘fruits-on-a-vine’ networks…
Close-up of a tubular structure made by simultaneous printing and self-assembling between graphene oxide and a protein. Credit: Professor Alvaro Mata An international team of…
Synthetic biology researchers have developed a system that can rapidly create cell-free ribosomes in a test tube, then select the ribosome that can perform a…
WFIRM 3D bioprinter prints muscle. Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine/WFIRM Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have improved upon the 3D…
(Click image for full view.) A French helmet from World War I sits beneath a shock tube to test how well it protects the dummy…
Green Slime covers the surface of a tadpole (bottom) and a goblet-cell regenerated aggregate (top, not the same scale). The images show the molecule intelectin-1,…
Researchers at McMaster University have created a self-cleaning surface, with medical settings and food industry in mind. Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University A self-cleaning surface…
An empty petri dish with two optical fibers, illustrating one version of the researchers’ experiment. The left-hand fiber (usually shining infrared light, but depicted here…
Cell-mimicking vesicles with enzymes incorporated into their membrane show active motility upon catalysis. Credit: Subhadip Ghosh Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and…
MIT engineers used human ureteral smooth muscle cells grown in a lab dish to identify drugs that would help to relax the muscle cells. Credit:…