The stylized yeast cells depicted in several leaves and flower petals are an artist’s interpretation of how scientists, using the tools of synthetic biology, genetically…
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Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads made from silk proteins, which can be used to manufacture useful materials. Researchers succeeded in producing the spider…
PhenoChip- a microfluidic device for the single cell phenotyping of unicellular phototrophs such as microalgae and cyanobacteria. Credit: Lars Behrendt Novel technology for the selection…
Postdoctoral associate Junwei Li, lead author of the study, holds an example of a capsule containing their enzyme. Credit: Image by Melanie Gonick/MIT MIT engineers…
The prototype device non-invasively detects COVID-19 in the exhaled breath of infected patients, similar to a breathalyzer test for alcohol intoxication. Few people who have…
Commerical-quality biodegradable flip-flops. Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego Biodegradable shoes meet commercial standards for products needed to help eradicate tons of…
A novel method that promises to accelerate drug discovery research for several diseases. Credit: Waseda University Scientists demonstrate new method of producing a specific class…
This is a 3D atomic scale map, or molecular structure, of Hexapro, a modified version of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, described in a paper in…
Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…
Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Developed a new 2D material to produce hydrogen, which is the basis of alternative energy; the material efficiently generates hydrogen molecules…
In the stretched-pulse soliton Kerr resonator developed by the lab of William Renninger, a single frequency laser enters a fiber ring cavity, generating a broad…
Cryo-EM reconstructions show how two different antibodies (blue) bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Credit: David Ho / Columbia University Irving Medical…
PiVR is a do-it-yourself tool that enables scientists to create virtual realities with optogenetics in small animals. (Right) Trajectory (blue line) of a fruit fly…
Metagenome Database Detects Phage-Derived Antibacterial Enzyme Scientists demonstrate that the information about host bacteria-bacteriophage (phage) associations derived from world’s first metagenome analysis is useful for…
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, and the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute have developed…
Three configurations of active sites where inhibitor GC-376 binds with the COVID-19 virus’s main protease (drug target Mpro), as depicted by 3D computer modeling. Credit:…
Tests glow green when they detect a contaminant. Credit: Northwestern University Handheld platform technology uses single sample to test for a variety of contaminants. New…
A type of virus that preys on bacteria could be harnessed to combat bacterial infections in patients whose immune systems have been weakened by the…
A model of an S-protein. Illustration: Dr. Yeolkyo Choi/Lehigh The virus SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the known cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The…
A bacterial biofilm patterned using MeniFluidics. Credit: University of Warwick Engineered living materials (ELMs) is a new class of materials that exploit the properties of…