Targeted viral-based gene therapies come with their own risks. A new gene delivery system mimics viral therapies to infect cancer cells with vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein, with a similar transfection efficiency as the virus itself.
Increase Therapeutic Outcomes
Decellularized ECM hydrogels as a delivery platform for extracellular vesicles and microRNAs.
Get Your Sunglasses Out: UV-Radiation and Eye Health
A German team of scientists published an overview on all the most recent knowledge on the role of the ultraviolet radiation in eye health and its aging process.
Treating Biofilm Infections with Red Phosphorus [Video]
A team of researchers develop a coating based on red phosphorus to treat biofilm infections resulting from bone implantation.
Uncontrolled Tourism is Harming Cheetahs
Tourism could be having an impact on female cheetahs’ ability to raise cubs.
Off-Grid Solar Systems in the Global South
Small solar systems seem to have a significant impact in terms of quality of life for their users and in helping them to keep connected to the global world.
A Dual-Modal Probe for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease [Video]
A novel probe for imaging amyloid-β (Aβ) in vivo is developed, enabling the early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
Kidney Cancer Diagnosis using Raman Spectroscopy
A team of North American scientists discovered that Short wave infrared Raman spectroscopy has the potential to accurately differentiate normal and malignant kidney tumors.
From Damaged Woods to Renewable Bioenergy
The opportunities and challenges of salvage logging of biomass after natural disturbances to supply wood-based bioenergy.
Overcoming Early Career Barriers to Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research
None are likely better suited to interdisciplinary research than those early in their scientific careers, and the next generation of scientists whom they are today teaching, advising, and mentoring.