Biochemistry News
July 26, 2024
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July 26, 2024 — Scientists have identified an automatic behavior in flies that helps them assess wind conditions -- its presence and direction -- before deploying a strategy to follow a scent to its source. The fact ...
July 25, 2024 — Non-reciprocal interactions allow the design of more efficient molecular systems. Scientists now propose a mechanism on how energy barriers in complex systems can be overcome. These findings can help to engineer molecular machines and to understand ...
July 25, 2024 — In a scientific breakthrough, an international research team has developed a quantum sensor capable of detecting minute magnetic fields at the atomic length scale. This pioneering work realizes a long-held dream of scientists: an MRI-like tool for ...
July 25, 2024 — Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. The reaction can be sped up by adding ...
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July 24, 2024 — The praying mantis is one of the few insects with compound eyes and the ability to perceive 3D space. Engineers are replicating their visual systems to make machines see ...
July 24, 2024 — A tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering a path toward new ways of wirelessly and securely transmitting large ...
July 24, 2024 — Ultrafine particles, UFPs, the smallest contributors to air pollution, hinder the function of mitochondria in human olfactory mucosa cells, a new ...
July 23, 2024 — Researchers have successfully made super-heavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: ...
July 23, 2024 — Scientists use a multimodal approach that combines hard X-ray computed tomography and X-ray fluorescence imaging to see the structure and chemical processes inside of a single ...
July 23, 2024 — Chemists have developed a rapid electrothermal mineralization (REM) process, which in seconds can remediate the accumulation of synthetic chemicals ...
July 23, 2024 — A pilot study shows that nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone not only provides further insight into the changes soft tissues undergo during ...
July 22, 2024 — Scientists are bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true ...
July 22, 2024 — A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using ...
July 19, 2024 — A new study describes a chemical reaction that can convert Styrofoam into a high-value conducting polymer known as PEDOT:PSS. Researchers also noted that the upgraded plastic waste can be ...
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July 19, 2024 — Understanding how soft materials fail under stress is critical for solving engineering challenges as disparate as pharmaceutical technology and landslide prevention. A new study linking a spectrum of ...
July 19, 2024 — Researchers use microscopy to chart amyloid beta's underlying structure and yield insight into neurodegenerative ...
July 19, 2024 — Chemists have been working to synthesize high-value materials from waste molecules for ...
July 18, 2024 — Creating fertilizers from organic waste can help reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and promote sustainable production. One way of doing this is through hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), which ...
July 18, 2024 — The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a ...
July 18, 2024 — As the number of major utility-scale ground solar panel installations grows, concerns about their impacts on natural hydrologic processes also have grown. However, a new study by Penn State ...
July 17, 2024 — An environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of 'forever chemical' water pollutants, offering ...
July 17, 2024 — Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed soft, stretchable 'jelly batteries' that could be used for wearable devices or soft robotics, or even implanted in the brain to deliver drugs or treat conditions ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers engineered a new technique to identify at the nanoscale level what components are overheating in electronics and causing their performance to ...
July 17, 2024 — Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal symptoms and the potential for fatal overdose. ...
July 17, 2024 — A newly engineered type of soil can capture water out of thin air to keep plants hydrated and manage controlled release of fertilizer for a constant supply of ...
July 17, 2024 — Snot might not be the first place you'd expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues -- it also lines and ...
July 16, 2024 — CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular diagnostics. Researchers have now expanded this extensive toolbox further. Their novel ...
July 16, 2024 — Delivery systems in body continuously move materials between cells. Hijacking these systems allowed scientists to improve loading and delivery of therapeutic proteins. Biophysical principles could be ...
July 16, 2024 — Research achieves scientific breakthrough in understanding cell ...
July 16, 2024 — Our immune system is always on alert, detecting and eliminating pathogens and cancer cells. Cellular control mechanisms cause diseased cells to present antigens on their surface like signs for the ...
July 16, 2024 — Carbon capture is a promising approach for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Different materials have been used to capture CO2 from industrial exhaust gases. Scientists developed hybrid CO2 ...
July 16, 2024 — New research shows that ozone concentrations at Carlsbad Caverns National Park frequently exceed Environmental Protection Agency health standards, likely due to oil and natural gas development in the ...
July 16, 2024 — A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the environment vary significantly depending on the ecosystem. In drier regions, ...
Friday, July 19, 2024
- Researchers Clarify How Soft Materials Fail Under Stress
- Shining Light on Amyloid Architecture
- Chemists Design Novel Method for Generating Sustainable Fuel
Thursday, July 18, 2024
- Converting Wastewater to Fertilizer With Fungal Treatment
- How Pollution May Remain in Water After Oil Spill Cleanups
- Solar Farms With Stormwater Controls Mitigate Runoff, Erosion, Study Finds
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Microbes Found to Destroy Certain 'forever Chemicals'
- Ant Insights Lead to Robot Navigation Breakthrough
- Soft, Stretchy 'jelly Batteries' Inspired by Electric Eels
- New Technique Pinpoints Nanoscale 'hot Spots' In Electronics to Improve Their Longevity
- Designing Safer Opioids
- Smart Soil Can Water and Feed Itself
- Enzyme-Powered 'snot Bots' Help Deliver Drugs in Sticky Situations
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- A New Addition to the CRISPR Toolbox: Teaching the Gene Scissors to Detect RNA
- Transporting Precious Cargo Using the Body's Own Delivery System
- Unique Characteristics of Previously Unexplored Protein Discovered
- Immune System in the Spotlight
- Capturing Carbon With Energy-Efficient Sodium Carbonate-Nanocarbon Hybrid Material
- Oil and Natural Gas Development in Permian Is a Key Source of Ozone Pollution in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Study Finds
- Local Dragonflies Expose Mercury Pollution Patterns
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Crystals from Radioactive Metal Actinium
- Scientists Create Computer Program That 'paints' The Structure of Molecules in the Style of Piet Mondrian
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Microbeads With Adaptable Fluorescent Colors from Visible Light to Near-Infrared
- A Chemical Claw Machine Bends and Stretches When Exposed to Vapors
- A Better Way to Make RNA Drugs
- Neural Networks Made of Light
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- A Comprehensive Derivative Synthesis Method for Development of New Antimicrobial Drugs
- Ultrasound Technology Can Be Used to Boost Mindfulness, Study Finds
- Engineers' Probe Could Help Advance Treatment for Spinal Cord Disease, Injury
- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
- Nanoplastics and 'forever Chemicals' Disrupt Molecular Structures, Functionality
- Quadrupolar Nuclei Measured by Zero-Field NMR
- Bacteria Form Glasslike State
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Atlas of Proteins Reveals Inner Workings of Cells
- A New Material Derived from Graphene Improves the Performance of Neuroprostheses
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Moving from the Visible to the Infrared: Developing High Quality Nanocrystals
- Implantable LED Device Uses Light to Treat Deep-Seated Cancers
- Progress in Development of a New High-Tech Kidney Disease Urine Test
- Mining Rare Earth Metals from Electronic Waste
- It Takes a Cool Microscope and Antifreeze to Really Look at Ice
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Chemistry Inspired by One-Pot Cooking
- New Bio-Based Tool Quickly Detects Concerning Coronavirus Variants
- Hexagonal Perovskite Oxides: Electrolytes for Next-Generation Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Visualizing Short-Lived Intermediate Compounds Produced During Chemical Reactions
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Do Genes-in-Pieces Code for Proteins That Fold in Pieces?
- A Breakthrough in Inexpensive, Clean, Fast-Charging Batteries
- A Genetic Algorithm for Phononic Crystals
- Mechanism of Bio-Inspired Control of Liquid Flow
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- Using Visible Light to Make Pharmaceutical Building Blocks
- Giant Clams May Hold the Answers to Making Solar Energy More Efficient
- What Was Behind the 2021-2022 Energy Crisis Within Europe?
- Exploring the Chemical Space of the Exposome: How Far Have We Gone?
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Light Targets Cells for Death and Triggers Immune Response With Laser Precision
- A Prosthesis Driven by the Nervous System Helps People With Amputation Walk Naturally
- New and Improved Camera Inspired by the Human Eye
- Scientists Probe Chilling Behavior of Promising Solid-State Cooling Material
- Novel Spectroscopy Technique Sheds Light on NOx Reduction
- Nanorobot With Hidden Weapon Kills Cancer Cells
- Melanin from Cuttlefish Ink as a Sustainable Biomass Resource
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals
- Breakthrough Research Makes Cancer-Fighting Viral Agent More Effective
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Light-Controlled Artificial Maple Seeds Could Monitor the Environment Even in Hard-to-Reach Locations
- No More Stressing out Over Structural Formulas
- New Materials: Synthetic Pathway for Promising Nitride Compounds Discovered
- First Specific PET Scan for TB Could Enable More Effective Treatment
- Aromatic Compounds: A Ring Made Up Solely of Metal Atoms
- Common Plastics Could Passively Cool and Heat Buildings With the Seasons
- Intriguing New Tool for Tendon Healing: Nanoparticles for Precision Drug Delivery
- New, Holistic Way to Teach Synthetic Biology
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Solar Technology: Innovative Light-Harvesting System Works Very Efficiently
- New Tool Enables Faster, More Cost-Effective Genome Editing of Traits to Improve Agriculture Sustainability
- Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice
- A New Study Highlights Potential of Ultrafast Laser Processing for Next-Gen Devices
- Towards Non-Toxic Antifouling Agents: A Novel Method for Total Synthesis of Scabrolide F
- Revealing the Dynamic Choreography Inside Multilayer Vesicles
- Light-Weight Microscope Captures Large-Scale Brain Activity of Mice on the Move
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- Researchers Discover New Flat Electronic Bands, Paving Way for Advanced Quantum Materials
- Wildfires Increasingly Threaten Oil and Gas Drill Sites, Compounding Potential Health Risks
- Robots Face the Future
- 3D-Printed Chip Sensor Detects Foodborne Pathogens for Safer Products
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Researchers Develop RNA-Targeting Technology for Precisely Manipulating Parts of Human Genes
- Researchers Engineer AI Path to Prevent Power Outages
Friday, June 21, 2024
- Prying Open the AI Black Box
- Controlling Electronics With Light: The Magnetite Breakthrough
- Membrane Protein Analogues Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
- Lab-Grown Muscles Reveal Mysteries of Rare Muscle Diseases
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Scientists Discover New Behavior of Membranes That Could Lead to Unprecedented Separations
- Scientists Devise Algorithm to Engineer Improved Enzymes
- Creation of a Power-Generating, Gel Electret-Based Device
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
- Transforming Inexpensive Quinolines Into Complex Drug Candidates
- A Railroad of Cells
- Much of the Nord Stream Gas Remained in the Sea
- New Technology Provides Electrifying Insights Into How Catalysts Work at the Atomic Level
- Researchers Create New Class of Materials Called 'glassy Gels'
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- Mirror-Image Chemicals May Revolutionize Drug Delivery
- Unveiling Telo-Seq: A Breakthrough in Telomere Research on Aging and Cancer