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At some point, microvehicles that are small enough to navigate our blood vessels will enable physicians to take biopsies, insert stents and deliver drugs with precision to sites that are difficult to reach, all from inside the body. Scientists around the world are currently researching and developing suitable microvehicles. In most cases, they are powered

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, February 17, 2021 – A team led by researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have found a new way of enhancing the performance of electrochemical micro-sensors. This discovery could lead to the detection of biomolecules, such as dopamine, at lower concentrations than is possible today. Their findings

IMAGE: To the left, Professor Jung-Ah Cho, who helped conceptualize the study. In the middle and to the right, lead authors Ms Yoojin Ahn and Mr Tae Seong Lyu, respectively. view more  Credit: DGIST Despite our great progress in understanding various cellular mechanisms over the last decades, many of them remain unclear. Such is the case

IMAGE: Newly designed beta-barrel proteins fold spontaneously into their intended structures and embed into lipid membranes. How the proteins were created from scratch, and their future potential in the construction of… view more  Credit: Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design In a milestone for biomolecular design, a team of scientists has succeeded in creating

IMAGE: The mitoribosome is attached to its membrane adaptor as it synthesises a bioenergetic protein (glow yellow). view more  Credit: Dan W. Nowakowski and Alexey Amunts Scientists uncover for the first time how the body’s energy makers are made using Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) at eBIC within Diamond which is based in Oxfordshire. A new paper published

“For decades, chemistry has been governed by two ambitions goals,” says Professor Stefan Tautz, head of the Quantum Nanoscience subinstitute at Forschungszentrum Jülich. “One of these is understanding chemical reactions directly from the spatial distribution of electrons in molecules, while the other is tracing electron dynamics over time during a chemical reaction.” Both of these

IMAGE: Comparison of S at different times at 100?K and 112?K for the CDC in this work with other separation methods from the literature. The inset shows illustrative models for the… view more  Credit: Copyright 2021, Nature Communications, Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a major role in the early detection of

IMAGE: Artist’s impression of a many-body quantum gate with trapped Rydberg atoms. The qubit in the center controls the state of the neighboring qubits by making use of the strong interaction… view more  Credit: University of Stuttgart, Celina Brandes Similar to a classical computer, a quantum computer executes a sequence of logical computational steps – algorithms.

IMAGE: Schematic diagram of a positively charged particle pretreatment device equipped with a multiscale-porous anion exchange membrane view more  Credit: POSTECH, WILEY Sample pretreatment processes such as concentration or classification are essential to finding trace substances present in a fluid. In scientific communities recently, prolific research is being conducted on sample pretreatment techniques utilizing electrokinetics.1 However,