Nanotechnology
Game of Life and Death: Can you dare the odds and make it past 100?
Washington Post releases a new interactive feature online that delves into 7 ways medical technology has evolved over the past ...
GENeS launches: New project provides journalists, NGOs, policy analysts scientific expertise on breaking stories
Journalists and policymakers take note: GENeS--Genetic Expert News Service--is now live! Turn to GENeS for independent expert analysis and commentary ...
Gold particles provide luminous peek into brain
Light can be used to activate normal, non-genetically modified neurons through the use of targeted gold nanoparticles, report scientists from ...
DNA storage techniques mimic Human Nature
Over the past few years, researchers at Harvard, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, ETH Zurich university, and ...
Self-destructing genes reveal novel approach to therapy
Bioengineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created a novel gene-delivery system that shuttles a gene into a ...
Plato, Beyoncé, and everything in between stored in one tablespoon of DNA
Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the ...
Will benefits of nanopesticides outweigh costs?
Stacey Harper is doggedly researching tiny, human-made substances called nanoparticles. The scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis hopes to be ...
Molecules designed to ‘strangle’ bone cancer cells, furthering search for treatments
Chemists have designed a carbohydrate-based molecule that can surround and strangle bone cancer cells by self-assembling into a tangled web ...