So, you thought the fictional people-eating great white shark in the film "Jaws" had a powerful bite.
Nanophysics
Nov 15, 2017
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(Phys.org) —A key feature of certain chemicals is their ability to bind to other molecules – a property that emerged through evolution – but current chemical theory lacks the ability to design binders from first principles. ...
To combat viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, synthetic biology offers new technological approaches whose performance is being validated in experiments. Researchers from the Würzburg Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based ...
Biotechnology
Jan 11, 2024
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What if there was plastic-like material that could absorb excess nutrients from water and be used as a fertilizer when it decomposes? That product—a "bioplastic" material—has been created by University of Saskatchewan ...
Biochemistry
Apr 23, 2024
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A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which might someday be used as construction or repair material or for protective ...
Materials Science
Oct 11, 2018
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A chance meeting between a spider expert and a chemist has led to the development of antibiotic synthetic spider silk.
Materials Science
Jan 4, 2017
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Researcher Laura Rossi and her group at TU Delft have found a new way to build synthetic materials out of tiny glass particles—so-called colloids. Together with their colleagues from Queen's University and the University ...
Nanomaterials
May 27, 2022
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The same 20-sided solid that was morphed into geodesic domes in the past century may be the shape of things to come in synthetic biology.
Biochemistry
Jun 20, 2016
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Chemists have predicted zigzag-edged triangular graphene molecules (ZTGMs) to host ferromagnetically coupled edge states, with net spin scaling with the molecular size. Such molecules can afford large spin tunability, which ...
MIT engineers have genetically reprogrammed a strain of yeast so that it converts sugars to fats much more efficiently, an advance that could make possible the renewable production of high-energy fuels such as diesel.
Biotechnology
Jan 17, 2017
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