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nanoBIO Internships and Research Program Provides Unique Experience to Undergrads

For the University of California, Merced, students in this year’s nanoBIO internships and research program, working with something extremely small could have huge implications.

16 Dec 2014

Green Process to Reduce Molecular Switching Waste Opens Way for Industrial Nanotech Applications

Dartmouth researchers have found a solution using visible light to reduce waste produced in chemically activated molecular switches, opening the way for industrial applications of nanotechnology ranging from anti-cancer drug delivery to LCD displays and molecular motors.

16 Dec 2014

New Method for Preprogramming Timing to Initiate Molecular Self-Organization

At the National Institute for Materials Science, Senior Researcher Kazunori Sugiyasu and co-workers developed a method for preprogramming the timing of molecules to initiate self-organization by mixing molecules with modified side chains. The results of this research will be published in the German Chemical Society’s journal “Angewandte Chemie International Edition” in the near future.

11 Dec 2014

Nanomimics of Host Cell Membranes can Trick Malaria Parasites

Malaria parasites invade human red blood cells, they then disrupt them and infect others. Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have now developed so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick the parasites. This could lead to novel treatment and vaccination strategies in the fight against malaria and other infectious diseases. Their research results have been published in the scientific journal ACS Nano.

10 Dec 2014

XFEL Imaging Technique Reveals Atomic Structure of Proteins in Action

A research team led by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has proven a method that makes it possible to find the atomic structure of proteins in action by producing “snapshots” of them with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

8 Dec 2014

Researchers Visualize Protein Interactions at Nanometer Spatial Resolution in Live Cells

Cells are restless. They move during embryogenesis, tissue repair, regeneration, chemotaxis. Even in disease, tumor metastasis, cells get around. To do this, they have to keep reorganizing their cytoskeleton, removing pieces from one end of a microtubule and adding them to the front, like a railroad with a limited supply of tracks. The EB family of proteins helps regulate this process and can act as a scaffold for other proteins involved in pushing the microtubule chain forward.

8 Dec 2014

X-ray Laser Shows How Photosynthetic Bacteria Protein Changes Shape in Response to Light

Human biology is a massive collection of chemical reactions, from the intricate signaling network that powers our brain activity to the body’s immune response to viruses and the way our eyes adjust to sunlight.

8 Dec 2014

ITbM Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Chemical Technique for Rapid Molecular Simulations

Professor Stephan Irle and Yoshio Nishimoto at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University and Dr. Dmitri Fedorov of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Tsukuba) have developed a novel ultrafast quantum chemical method enabling rapid simulations of molecules containing more than a million atoms without detrimental loss in accuracy.

8 Dec 2014

North America Accounts for the Largest Share of Global Synthetic Biology Market

The synthetic biology market is rapidly evolving, with various technological advancements that have resulted in a paradigm shift within the market. This has resulted in advanced production of synthetic genes and chassis to develop synthetic organisms from scratch.

5 Dec 2014

Bionanotechnology News

nanoBIO Internships and Research Program Provides Unique Experience to Undergrads

Green Process to Reduce Molecular Switching Waste Opens Way for Industrial Nanotech Applications

New Method for Preprogramming Timing to Initiate Molecular Self-Organization

Nanomimics of Host Cell Membranes can Trick Malaria Parasites

XFEL Imaging Technique Reveals Atomic Structure of Proteins in Action

Researchers Visualize Protein Interactions at Nanometer Spatial Resolution in Live Cells

X-ray Laser Shows How Photosynthetic Bacteria Protein Changes Shape in Response to Light

ITbM Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Chemical Technique for Rapid Molecular Simulations

North America Accounts for the Largest Share of Global Synthetic Biology Market

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