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June 6, 2014
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Chemistry World
March 6, 2011
Mike Brown |
Molecules that walk, hop and jump 'Two legged' molecules walk, hop and fly across a receptor surface, according to researchers in the Netherlands and Ireland. The findings could help us understand how viruses and bacteria interact with cell membranes, they say. |
Chemistry World
August 12, 2011
Manisha Lalloo |
Unraveling cell membranes to understand drugs Researchers in Sweden have found a way to create flattened cell membranes, known as supported lipid bilayers, out of real cell structures. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
New probe throws light on cellular lipids Scientists in the US have developed a new sensor that can track and measure lipids in living cells. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Flexible electronics get even more bendy Researchers in Switzerland have developed a method to create electronic membranes that are thin and flexible enough to wrap around a human hair. |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
Column: The crucible Tears are surprisingly complex structures, an investment that surely must have some payoff. They are not just salty water, but contain enzymes and other proteins, lipids and metabolites. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2015
Aurora Walshe |
Fog-free film doesn't dare to glare Scientists in China have built a thin film that retains its antifogging properties even under an antireflective coating. |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2013
Jeanne Therese Andres |
Kiss-and-run drug delivery Carriers that release hydrophobic substances at cell membranes but do not enter the cells themselves could be the foundation for a new way to deliver drugs into cells, according to a team of scientists in Germany. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Jenni Laidman |
When Membranes Merge Scientists are uncovering details of synaptic signaling between neurons. |
Chemistry World
March 30, 2006
Helen Carmichael |
Gene Therapists Swarm Round Honeycomb Lipid Researchers have synthesised a lipid molecule they say shows real promise in gene therapy. The lipid forms a novel honeycomb complex that the researchers claim is tailored to non-viral DNA delivery. |
Chemistry World
October 17, 2011
Andy Extance |
Water erodes 'lock and key' drug model US researchers have dealt a severe blow to the idea of a single 'hydrophobic effect' that can help explain how all drugs dock with proteins. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 49
David Bradley |
Hydrophobic Water? Researchers have found evidence to indicate that water molecules don't always want to bond to other water molecules, affecting the uniformity of water forming on metal surfaces. |
Chemistry World
August 4, 2009
Nina Notman |
Cell-sized vesicle assembly line A production line for uniform lipid-coated microspheres has been created by Japanese scientists. One day these could be used in drug delivery or artificial cells. |
Technology Research News
April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. |
Chemistry World
July 5, 2006
Jon Evans |
Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Drug uptake rule challenged A study by UK scientists apparently contradicts a 100-year-old rule thought to govern the rate at which molecules cross biological membranes. |
Chemistry World
January 23, 2011
James Urquhart |
Novel nanoparticle filter Israeli researchers have created a recyclable membrane based on supramolecular linkages that can be used to filter nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2006
Michael Gross |
Imaging for the Masses Two US research groups have made progress in the application of mass spectrometry for imaging. |
Chemistry World
December 2011
Emma Davies |
Re-Record, Not Fade Away A look at the blockbuster tale of film preservation. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Designing porous patterns Belgian chemists are finally getting to grips with how to control the way molecules arrange themselves at the solid-liquid interface. |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2007
Michael Gross |
Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail. |
