Nanomaterial Dimmer Switch Modulates Brain and Heart Cell Activity Using Near Infrared Light
If you could chop up a meter-long stick into a billion little pieces, each would be a nanometer (nm) long. Materials made of particles with diameters in the nanoscale range are being used in...
Searching for the chemistry of life
Study shows possible new way to create DNA base pairs
Credit: Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Tomislav Stolar
In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have found...
New front opened in fight against common cancer driver
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have revealed a new vulnerability in lymphomas that are driven by one of the...
Study provides new insight into how brain stem cells are activated
Our brains are notoriously bad at regenerating cells that have been lost through injury or disease. While therapies using neural stem cells (NSCs) hold the promise of replacing lost cells, scientists need to better...
Nanoscale Gimlet May Give Weakened Antibiotics a Kick
A two-ingredient antibacterial cocktail is more potent than either ingredient alone, even though one of the ingredients is meropenem, an antibiotic that induces multidrug resistance in bacteria. This surprising outcome depends on a twist—or...
StockWatch: Layoffs, ARK Selloff Sink Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings (DNA) shares tumbled 26% in the three trading days since the company disclosed plans to chop an estimated 400+ jobs. That’s not so bad considering...
SandboxAQ Taps Nvidia to Boost its Quantitative AI for Drug Discovery, Other Industries
SandboxAQ has announced a collaboration with Nvidia to combine its large quantitative models (LQMs) with the Nvidia CUDA-accelerated Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) algorithm. According to SandboxAQ, the combined technologies will make it possible...
Wacker and Gearbox Biosciences Join Forces on Plasmid DNA Manufacturing
Wacker and Gearbox Biosciences agreed to collaborate to advance plasmid DNA manufacturing technologies. By combining Wacker’s expertise in GMP manufacturing of biologics, including pDNA, with Gearbox Bioscience’s solutions for antibiotic-free plasmid proliferation, this collaboration...
‘Strange metal’ is strangely quiet in noise experiment
HOUSTON – (Nov. 23, 2023) – True to form, a “strange metal” quantum material proved strangely quiet in recent quantum noise experiments at Rice University. Published this week in Science, the measurements of quantum...
University of Houston and Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University forge strategic energy alliance
HOUSTON, April 10, 2024 – The University of Houston (UH) and Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University (HWU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today, marking the beginning of their partnership to foster global collaboration in education,...
