EU funded the E-MEP (European Membrane Protein) project under which researchers took the initiate to study the structure of transporter protein in all three main structural states and became the first in the world to do so. The E-MEP project was financed under the “Life Sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health” and researchers took part [...]

The conventional atomic force microscope cantilever is a sharp tip that is used for obtaining three-dimensional image of the material. As the force required for imaging is minimum, even then on this force, the cantilever can tear apart the tissues or cells and biological materials. Although there is a continuous effort to make smaller and [...]

Scientists and engineers have used uniform magnetic fields to drive iron-bearing nanoparticles to metal stents in injured blood vessels, where the particles deliver a drug payload that successfully prevents blockages in those vessels. In this animal study, the novel technique achieved better results at a lower dose than conventional nonmagnetic stent therapy. The research is [...]

Yale University engineers have found that the defects in carbon nanotubes cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body’s natural immune response. Their findings, which appear as the cover article of the April 20 issue of the journal Langmuir, could improve current adoptive immunotherapy, a treatment used to boost the [...]

Imagine the marriage of hard metals or semiconductors to soft organic or biological products. Picture the strange, wonderful offspring — hybrid materials never conceived by Mother Nature.

Scientists of Leibniz University Hanover and of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt have now investigated in which way a rough base affects the electronic properties of graphene. Their results suggest that it will soon be possible to control plasmons, i.e. collective oscillations of electrons, purposefully in the graphene, by virtually establishing a lane composed of projections and [...]