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Category Archives: Materials
Blinged-Out Fat Blob Nanotrucks for Targeted Drug Delivery
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
The Machinery of Retroviruses Part 2: Using X-Rays to Solve Scientific Problems
(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
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
Science Fiction Coming True
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
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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