Highlights
Hydrogen
Hydrogen freed by nanoparticle duo
21 March 2017Heat
treatment offers precise control over catalytic activity of metal sulfide nanoparticles
Silicon
A tough coat for silicon
21 March 2017Supercritical
carbon dioxide delivers protective molecules to semiconductor surfaces
Protein
Translating the ribosome’s grim role
21 March 2017Could a surprise hookup prove fatal for the
long fragments of ‘junk’ RNA?
Host Factors
A human gene atlas for virus replication
7 March 2017Genetic screening gives new hope to the fight against a common childhood virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease
Immunology
Immune barriers remain intact after defense molecule loss
7 March 2017A missing immune response
molecule has no ill effects on subjects
Deep Hole Gun Drilling
Optimizing drill design when the chips are down
7 March 2017Modeling
the motion of chips produced in gun drilling shows a simple angle change could
lead to better gun drill design
Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC)
Probes lose their attachment issues
7 March 2017A novel method for designing fluorescent probes improves imaging of complex molecules in live cells
A*STAR Institute Of Molecular And Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB)
‘Scary stuff’ study finds distress chemicals in new fish order
7 March 2017A fish alarm system could be more universal than
originally thought
Android
Counting microbes on a smartphone
7 March 2017Mobile app lets scientists count bacterial colonies
on-the-go
Sub-wavelength Imaging
Spiky nanostructures capture life’s fine details
21 February 2017Assembling nanorods into complexes shaped like sea urchins may enable real-time imaging of cell components, including DNA
HDD
Laser heating hits the spot
21 February 2017Laser-based measurements reveal just how small each magnetic ‘bit’ could be using the next generation hard disk technology known as heat-assisted magnetic recording
Cytometry
A universal language for immunological sentinels
21 February 2017A framework for characterizing dendritic
cells should bring greater consistency and reliability to immunological
research
Flow Cytometry
A new kit for cytometry analysis
7 February 2017Cytofkit helps researchers make sense of mass cytometry datasets to uncover cell subsets
