Hydrogen bond base pairing forces are essential for the mechanisms associated with DNA stability. Despite attracting great research attention, this fundamental interaction has eluded a precise physical description so far since its electrical origin has not been quantified yet. Researchers now have proposed characterization by means of electrical forces, providing a framework for universal characterization [...]
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut out defective genes: these are just some of technologies that Cambridge researchers are developing which are set to revolutionise medicine in the future. In a new film to coincide with the recent launch of the [...]
DNA evolved to store genetic information, but in principle this special, chain-like molecule can also be adapted to make new materials. Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now published an important demonstration of this repurposing of DNA to create new substances with possible medical applications. TSRI's Floyd Romesberg and Tingjian Chen, in a [...]
Scientists have designed gold nanoparticles, no bigger than 100 nanometres, which can be coated and used to track blood flow in the smallest blood vessels in the body. By improving our understanding of blood flow in vivo the nanoprobes represent an opportunity to help in the early diagnosis of disease. Light microscopy is a rapidly [...]
In spite of medical advances, wound-related complications arising after operations can still be life-threatening. In order to avoid these complications in the future, a new nanoparticle-based tissue glue has been developed by researchers at Empa. There are internal and external areas of the body where it is difficult to apply stitches. Although medical science has [...]
The hype around blockchain — even in healthcare — is steadily increasing. A new survey from Black Book examined how the industry is approaching, investing in and deploying the technology. The Q3 survey included 88 payers and 276 provider technology executives, managers and IT specialists. The results make it clear that the healthcare field sees the value in blockchain. Ninety-three percent of [...]
Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with their colleagues from St. Petersburg, Hamburg and London have conducted a study in the course of which it was found out that polymer and hybrid silica-coated microcapsules are more efficient in genome-editing when applying CRISPR-Cas9 system. In the future, this joint development will significantly simplify and increase the [...]
A powerful screening strategy devised by RIKEN researchers will make it easier for scientists to assign likely biological functions to different molecules, facilitating the development of safe and effective drugs (Nature Chemical Biology, "Functional annotation of chemical libraries across diverse biological processes"). The scientific community is sitting atop vast mountains of genetic data as well [...]
With research headed by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the efforts to rid the world of polio have indeed taken another major step. A new study of the Nanopatch – a microscopic vaccine delivery platform initially developed by UQ Researchers - has demonstrated that the device [...]
Foresight Institute and the Transformative Technology Conference: Technical abilities have greatly accelerated in the last few decades, but the processes to become energized, mentally focused, emotionally connected, aware and internally aligned haven’t followed the same exponential curve. It’s time to accelerate. Global crises are calling upon us to unlock the solutions we have within. It’s [...]
