Category Archives: Materials

Blinged-Out Fat Blob Nanotrucks for Targeted Drug Delivery

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Sharon Neufeldt

Targeted drug delivery is a popular area of research that melds together the disciplines of chemistry, medicine, and materials. The basic idea is to develop ways to give a person a and somehow get that medicine to go to exactly … Continue reading →

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The Machinery of Retroviruses Part 2: Using X-Rays to Solve Scientific Problems

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Sharon Neufeldt

(Part 1 here) X-ray crystallography is used by the authors of a recent Nature paper to visualize the structure of certain key molecules relevant to retroviruses.  Though we usually think of X-rays as just a way of looking at our … Continue reading →

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Pass Me the Insulin, I’m Glowing Again

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Sharon Neufeldt

New technology could allow for continuous blood glucose monitoring by checking if a patch of your skin is glowing or not.  A paper published in this week describes a development that sounds like a crazy idea… so crazy that it … Continue reading →

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Science Fiction Coming True

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Sharon Neufeldt

Science fiction fans have long been enamored with the idea of microscopic submarines that could navigate the human body. A recent publication in JACS demonstrates that this futuristic idea is not really so far off. Continue reading →

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Tiny Towers

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Sharon Neufeldt

Scientists have discovered a new way to build nanoscale towers.  Each tower is only a few wide and a couple thousand nanometers tall.  For scientists who work with nanomaterials, it is relatively easy to build tiny tunnels (horizontal structures), but … Continue reading →

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