TOKYO, Feb 6 – Japanese and German researchers have independently synthesized a new class of silicon-based compounds that could expand the element’s role beyond semiconductors and industrial materials. A team led by Professor Takeaki Iwamoto…
Scientists Visualize Structure of Key DNA Repair Component…
[caption id="attachment_13771" align="alignright" width="309"] Artist's concept of Launching the cellular DNA-damage response by the ATR-ATRIP complex. (Image by WANG Guoyan and CHEN Lei, USTC)[/caption] Cells continuously replicate to repair and replace damaged tissue, and each…
New Synthethic Protocol to Form 3D Porous Organic…
A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has presented a new synthetic protocol to produce three-dimensional porous organic materials in the blink of an eye,…
All-in-one repair kit makes CRISPR gene editing more…
[caption id="attachment_13761" align="alignnone" width="617"] Biomedical engineering graduate student Jared Carlson-Stevermer observes real-time CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing at the microscope. STEPHANIE PRECOURT[/caption] For the past five years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized the field of gene editing due to its…
Turning emissions into fuel
MIT-developed method converts carbon dioxide into useful compounds. [caption id="attachment_13758" align="alignright" width="639"] XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be…