This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor’s blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker’s cubicle, unwanted noise remains a resounding problem.
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Sapio Sciences Unveils Enhanced Molecular Biology Toolkit
Sapio ELN release 24.5 features multiple improvements, including enhanced CRISPR design with multiple sequence alignment and integration with small molecule research. Image Credit: Nuttapong Punna/Shutterstock.com BALTIMORE, MD, May 7, 2024 — Sapio Sciences,...
Caterbot? Robatapillar? It crawls with ease through loops and bends
Engineers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have combined ancient paperfolding and modern materials science to create a soft robot that bends and twists through mazes with ease.
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Organ-on-a-Chip: Big Questions Surrounding Regulation and the Roadmap to Broad Adoption
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Broadcast Date: Friday, May 10, 2024Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CEST
Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) technologies are now being used across a range of drug discovery applications, through efficacy and...
Two studies aim to fight cancer with artificial cells
Fighting cancer with artificial cells that are capable of detecting and treating it. This is the dual objective of a research team of the Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - Cibio of...
StockWatch: Amgen Throws Its Weight Behind Obesity Drug
Amgen chairman and CEO Robert A. Bradway
Amgen (AMGN) signaled it intends to become the third powerhouse developer in the booming weight loss drug segment on Thursday, as two of its top executives delivered positive...
SCAI names James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI, President for 2024-25
LONG BEACH (May 4, 2024) James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI, director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and the Structural Heart Program at St. Vincent Ascension Heart Center in Indianapolis, IN, assumed the office of president...
Variety in building block softness makes for softer amorphous materials
Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new model for disordered materials to study how amorphous materials resist stress. They treated groups of atoms and molecules as squishy spheres with...
Using Multiplexed Multi-Omics to Study Spatial Heterogeneity in Ovarian Cancer
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Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 13, 2024Time: 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT, 17:00 CEST
Studying the spatial organization of all the cells in the niche or neighborhood of a tumor is...
Pan-cancer analysis uncovers a new class of promising CAR T–cell immunotherapy targets
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – May 03, 2024) Targeting anti-cancer therapy to affect cancer cells but not healthy cells is challenging. For chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T–cell immunotherapy, where a patient’s own immune cells are re-engineered...
