Each year the Australian of the Year award recognizes and celebrates the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians. This year a lead stem cell scientist was recognized.
Probing the Secret Life of RNA in Single Cells
Single-cell RNA analysis is now possible through innovative platforms combining state-of-the-art microscopy methods with various contrast-generating nanomaterials
Wire Supercapacitors – Key Candidate to Future Wearable Electronic Devices
Prof. Guozhen Shen’s group has designed and fabricated metres-long flexible wire-shaped supercapacitors, which can be easily woven into wearable and patterned textiles.
Aptamers against Polymeric Surfaces
The group of Prof. Lendlein searched for polymer binding aptamers, which are able to selectively bind to specific material surfaces.
Fight or die? How prokaryotes deal with infections
In their review in BioEssays, Eugene Koonin and Feng Zhang discuss the different outcomes when prokaryotes are infected by a virus.
Human-like Androids are the Future of Tomorrow
The initial foundation to achieve biomimetic human robots may be here, via a platform for the rapid fabrication of biologically relevant artificial tissues and organs which was recently proposed.
How sterile workers still manage to pass on “their” genes and evolve!
In their hypothesis article in BioEssays, Downing et al. present a testable hypothesis as to why sterile worker castes evolve, and continue to evolve, in many social insect orders: a hypothesis with implications for understanding longevity in general.
CellShape: imaging bacterial factories from the inside
Researchers have developed CellShape, a user-friendly image analysis tool for quantitative visualization of bacterial cell factories
The Search for the Holy Grail
Macromolecules with specific sequential arrangements of the monomer units have several amazing features, similar to DNA and RNA. As a result, polymer chemists have concentrated on the synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers, regarded as the “Holy Grail” of polymer...
Photoprotection or Photodamage? An Old But Unsolved Debate About Melanin
Over the past decade, melanin pigments and their subunits have attracted increasing interest as soft biocompatible functional materials with antioxidant properties for engineering high performance, low impact biocompatible optoelectronic devices, such as memory...