Development of a ‘Molecular Can Opener’ for Drug Delivery
Physicists utilized large-scale computer modeling to develop a cage-like structure and paired opener towards the goal of efficiently delivering therapies.
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Parkinson’s disease treatment leaves a mark in the gut
Scientists show that entacapone, a drug used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, disrupts bacterial communities in the gut by starving them of iron.
Is it still edible?
Researchers from Princeton use a simple sticker to accurately monitor fruit ripeness, offering a scalable solution to reduce food waste.
Ants vs Humans: Our insect friends are better team players
A puzzling new study finds that ants possess a higher collective intelligence than humans.
How dinosaurs came to rule the planet
Researchers from Europe examined dinosaur feces to help explain how the dinosaur dynasty arose.
New Study Charts Neanderthal DNA through Human History
A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley has mapped out the evolution of Neanderthal DNA over the last 40,000 years
A Thin Layer of Silence for You!
MIT scientists develop a piezoelectric fiber actuator that can be incorporated with different fabrics to create active noise cancelling and emission.
Circular Economy of Chocolate
Researchers at ETH Zurich are redefining the cocoa value chain through the development of innovative whole-fruit chocolate formulations.
Lizard saliva offers an improved tool for detecting benign tumors
A team of scientists demonstrates that a molecule found in lizard saliva can be used to better detect benign pancreatic tumors called insulinomas.
The ingredients for pluripotent stem cells are more ancient than we thought
By studying our closest single-celled relatives, scientists find that proteins important for stem cell pluripotency existed before the evolutionary jump to multicellularity.
