Carbohydrates are ubiquitous, essential molecules, as important as nucleic acids and proteins yet less well understood. Mounting data demonstrate that microbial and mammalian glycans and their protein-binding partners (lectins) play central roles in all innate...
Growing a Tumour in a Pearl Drop
Living cells within a liquid marble can form aggregate structures know as cancer cell spheroids that can be used as model tumours.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 27, 2012
Eight new papers in the Top 10 this week, including super-stretchable carbon ropes and a new molecule for high-efficiency solar cells.
Deceptive Viruses Trick Their Way Into Cells
Biomineralization-based virus shell engineering for functional modification of viruses to be used in cancer virotherapy or for vaccines
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 19, 2012
Work on pi-extended copolymers from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences takes top spot in the Advanced Materials Top 40.
Explosive Delivery Vehicles for Endosomal Release
Photo-induced endosomal release of drugs from a colloidal mesoporous silica platform using singlet oxygen to breakdown lipid envelopes.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 13, 2012
Gui Bazan’s paper on a new small molecule for high-efficiency solar cells takes the top spot on this week’s Advanced Materials Top 40.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 6, 2012
High-performance polymers for organic photovoltaics takes the top spot as the most-downloaded Advanced Materials paper in the last week.
Rapid Microfluidic Sorting for On-chip Capture and Analysis of Single Cells
On-chip culturing and molecular profiling of captured cancer cells using a low-cost, rapid microfluidic cell sorter device
Advanced Materials Top 40 for May 30, 2012
This week’s Advanced Materials Top 40 most-read articles features graphene, healthcare, and functional fibers inspired by spider silk.