A new thin material that mimics cell membranes could help water purification, drug delivery and more
Nature-inspired synthetic membranes could aid water purification, energy, and healthcare needs Materials scientists have created a new material that performs like a cell membrane found in na... Read more
Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell. Their achiev... Read more
Liquid water is a requirement for life on Earth. But in other, much colder worlds, life might exist beyond the bounds of water-based chemistry. Taking a simultaneously imaginative and rigidl... Read more
Human cells are protected by a largely impenetrable molecular membrane, but researchers have built the first artificial transporter protein that carries individual atoms across membranes, op... Read more
As if being sick weren’t bad enough, there’s also the fear of frequent injections, side effects and overdosing on you medication. Now a team of researchers from University of Cop... Read more
Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body and deliver those drugs to separate parts of the cancer cell whe... Read more
Graphene emerges as a versatile new surface to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential for applications in sensors for understanding biological proces... Read more
“This is about the safe design of nanomaterials” A collaboration of biologists, engineers, and material scientists at Brown University has found that jagged edges of graphene can easil... Read more
This exciting finding opens the way for the development of new antibacterial drugs to fight bacteria using their own weapons. A new study which was performed jointly at Umeå University and t... Read more
Findings published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that proteins on the surface of bacteria can produce an electric current by simply touchin... Read more
A patient’s own white cells could be harvested and used to create personalized LLVs By cloaking nanoparticles in the membranes of white blood cells, scientists at The Methodist Hospita... Read more
Madhavan Nallani, a researcher at Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, hopes his invention will help bring new drug therapies to patients in less time and at lower co... Read more
