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- Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells With further development, the programmable system could be used in a range of applications including gene and cancer therapies....
- Scientists made a woolly mammoth meatball, but don’t grab your fork yet The mammoth meatball is real, but it's anyone's guess how your stomach would handle it....
- ‘Smart' Bandages Monitor Wounds and Provide Targeted Treatment Most of the time, when someone gets a cut, scrape, burn, or other wound, the body takes care of itself and heals on its own. But this is not always the case. Diabetes can interfere with the healing process and create wounds that will not go away and that could...
- Bubble wall confinement–driven molecular assembly toward sub–12 nm and beyond pr... An efficient bubble-template printing method is developed for fabrication of nano- and molecular-scale patterns....
- Enhanced organic solar cells can boost plant growth A miniature greenhouse prototype with a roof made from semi-transparent organic solar cells resulted in better plant growth than a traditional greenhouse. Photo: Yang Yang Laboratory/UCLA.As countries around the globe seek sustainable energy sources and the US endeavors to become a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, renewable energy sources such...
- Watch these tiny bugs catapult urine with their butts A glassy-winged sharpshooter rests on a leaf at Buena Biosystems in Santa Paula, California on June 13, 2002. Buena Biosystems is contracted to produce eggs of the sharpshooter as part of a statewide experiment to prevent the pest from ravaging vineyards and other crops. Stephen Osman/Los Angeles Times via Getty...
- Making engineered cells dance to ultrasound Let's say you needed to move an individual cell from one place to another. How would you do it? Maybe some special tweezers? A really tiny shovel?The fact is that manipulating individual cells is a difficult task. Some work has been done on so-called optical tweezers that can push cells...
- Caltech Faculty Lead Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting When firefighters battle a blaze in a rugged, mountainous region, one of their biggest challenges is simply staying in touch. Their handheld radios often don't stay connected to each other, and many fire crews lack simple, off-the-shelf solutions, such as the portable systems the U.S. armed forces use to set...
- Two Professors Receive Caltech's Highest Honors for Teaching and Mentorship Caltech has announced the recipients of its two highest prizes recognizing outstanding teaching and mentorship.The 2022–23 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech's highest teaching prize, has been awarded to Lulu Qian, professor of bioengineering.The Feynman Prize was established in 1993 to annually honor a professor who demonstrates, in the...
- Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties The sensor sends out its location as it moves through the GI tract, revealing where slowdowns in digestion may occur....
- Printing hydrogel structures with peptide ink Some of the structures printed using the peptide-based 3D-printing ink developed by Rices Hartgerink lab. A dime is included for scale. Image: Hartgerink lab/Rice University.How do you build complex structures for housing cells using a material as soft as Jell-O? Scientists at Rice University now have the answer, and it...
- Microelectronics give researchers a remote control for biological robots By Liz Ahlberg Touchstone First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. The hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle and microelectronics, said researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University and collaborating institutions....