Nanobiotechnology

Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound

Wired UK: Yushun Zeng squishes cancer cells in a petri dish at work. No, not with his ungainly, macroscopic human fingers. Zeng, an engineering graduate student at the University of Southern California, has built a device that traps and compresses the…

Nanotechnology enables visualization of RNA structures at near-atomic resolution

PhysOrg: We live in a world made and run by RNA, the equally important sibling of the genetic molecule DNA. In fact, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that RNA existed and…

Chiral gold nanoparticles increase vaccine efficacy by more than 25%, study suggests

PhysOrg: Vaccines can be made over 25% more effective by adding left-handed chiral gold nanoparticles as adjuvants, according to a study by an international collaboration in which Brazilian researchers…

David Smith builds self-assembling nanogels for regenerative medicine

C&EN: For David Smith, a professor of chemistry at the University of York, the personal, political, and professional are inextricably interwoven. As an out gay man leading a team of student researchers, Smith knows that visibility is critical to diversity….