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Zorlutuna and co-workers from the University of Notre Dame demonstrate muscle cells as diode components for biocomputing.
How We Develop: Developmental Systems and the Emergence of Complex Behaviors
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Proteins Feel the Pinch with DNA Nanotweezers
In a study published in the new journal Advanced Biosystems, scientists from the University of Hong Kong demonstrated that it is possible to use a DNA aptamer split across a tweezer such that the presence of the target protein triggers the DNA tweezer mechanism.
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The brains of mice and humans are more similar than we’d think when it comes to parenting…
Understanding Polymer-Cell Attachment
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Diamond based epiretinal devices offer the hope of improved prosthetic vision for blind patients.
Pure Protein Bilayers and Vesicles from Native Fungal Hydrophobins
Professor Seemann and his colleagues discovered how bilayers made purely from hydrophobins were created using a microfluidic technique.
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
CellShape: imaging bacterial factories from the inside
Researchers have developed CellShape, a user-friendly image analysis tool for quantitative visualization of bacterial cell factories
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