Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 27, 2024

Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 14, 2024

With 2D cameras and space robotics algorithms, astronautics engineers have created a navigation system able to manage multiple satellites using visual data only. They just tested it in space for the first time.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 11, 2024

Cloud 'engineering' could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To speed up the annotation step, the Broad Institute’s Data Sciences Platform (DSP) has developed a new search engine that automates much of this process by using machine learning to search data on more than 50 million annotated single cells. It’s basically a search engine. How did you build the search engine? How does CAS work?

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Scientists have engineered the microbiome of plants for the first time, boosting the prevalence of 'good' bacteria that protect the plant from disease. The findings could substantially reduce the need for environmentally destructive pesticides.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid transport properties critical for applications in electronics cooling, self-cleaning technologies and anti-icing systems.

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Broad Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By Claire Hendershot February 21, 2024 Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Khalid Shakir is a principal software engineer in the McCarroll Lab. Now, Shakir has traded in his Commodore 64 for large-scale computational tools that he develops as a software engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Bridging precision engineering and precision medicine to create personalized physiology avatars. Pursuing on-demand tissue and organ engineering for human health. Revolutionizing neuroscience by using AI to engineer advanced brain interface systems. Engineering the immune system for health and wellness.

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sptlabtech

JANUARY 15, 2024

Every on e of our engineers play s a pivotal role in delivering the highest standards for our firefly customers. This complexity requires our engineers to possess a unique blend of skills, ensuring they can set up each user for success. Laboratories globally rely on firefly for its liquid handling precision. Explore firefly.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent and growing global crisis. Researchers are exploring phages, viruses that infect bacteria, as a possible solution. In the new study, researchers successfully modified DNA from four types of phages to kill a deadly pathogen. The process can also be used to produce more phage variants for further exploration.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 16, 2024

A zinc-air microbattery could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Researchers have published a programmable framework that overcomes a key computational bottleneck of optics-based artificial intelligence systems. In a series of image classification experiments, they used scattered light from a low-power laser to perform accurate, scalable computations using a fraction of the energy of electronics.

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addgene Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Luckily, there are websites that can help: Antibody data repositories, which share validation data, and antibody search engines, which allow you to search many different antibody catalogs at the same time.

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Broad Institute

JULY 23, 2024

During her childhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Erion-Barner enjoyed building erector sets with her father, an engineer, and joining him in the backyard to view the night sky through the family’s telescope.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 24, 2024

Splash a few drops of water on a hot pan and if the pan is hot enough, the water will sizzle and the droplets of water seem to roll and float, hovering above the surface. The temperature at which this phenomenon, called the Leidenfrost effect, occurs is predictable, usually happening above 230 degrees Celsius.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 1, 2025

Researchers report that they have invented new nanoscale sensors of force. They are luminescent nanocrystals that can change intensity and/or color when you push or pull on them. These 'all-optical' nanosensors are probed with light only and therefore allow for fully remote read-outs -- no wires or connections are needed.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Researchers have unveiled a pioneering method for the efficient combustion of biofuels, using a revolutionary Swirl Burst (SB) injector to burn glycerol/methanol blends with near-zero emissions. This new technology enables ultra-clean combustion for fuels that are typically difficult to burn due to their high viscosity.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Imagine tires that charge a vehicle as it drives, streetlights powered by the rumble of traffic, or skyscrapers that generate electricity as the buildings naturally sway and shudder.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 10, 2024

If a material absorbs light, it will heat up. That heat must go somewhere, and the ability to control where and how much heat is emitted can protect or even hide such devices as satellites. An international team of researchers has published a novel method for controlling this thermal emission in Science.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Researchers genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies, which convert light into electricity, are increasingly applied worldwide to generate renewable energy. Researchers have now developed a molecular treatment that significantly enhances the efficiency and durability of perovskite solar cells.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 4, 2024

With a split-second muscle contraction, the greater blue-ringed octopus can change the size and color of the namesake patterns on its skin for purposes of deception, camouflage and signaling.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The system combines an activated carbon filter with a special, patented catalyst that traps harmful chemicals and breaks them down into harmless components on the filter material.

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Engineering 116

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As a megadrought stresses the water supply throughout the Southwest, revolutionary research is answering this problem with a groundbreaking technology that pulls large amounts of water from the air in low humidities.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Bioengineers around the world have been working to create plastic-producing microbes that could replace the petroleum-based plastics industry. Now, researchers have overcome a major hurdle: getting bacteria to produce polymers that contain ring-like structures, which make the plastics more rigid and thermally stable.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Construction materials such as concrete and plastic have the potential to lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study by civil engineers and earth systems scientists.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 25, 2024

Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. The reaction can be sped up by adding caffeine.

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Engineering 129

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 11, 2024

Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday language. Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 6, 2025

Zhang, the James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences and biological engineering, was among nine individual recipients of the award.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 9, 2025

An international research team has discovered a new type of skeletal tissue that offers great potential for advancing regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 26, 2024

Engineering researchers have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least 1,000.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 6, 2024

Engineers created a catapillar-shaped robot that splits into segments and reassembles, hauls cargo, and crawls through twisting courses.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Scientists may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself. By studying mutations in malignant T cells that cause lymphoma, they zeroed in on one that imparted exceptional potency to engineered T cells.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 24, 2024

Engineers have developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to 'enroll' them. The system then plays just the enrolled speaker's voice in real time, even as the pair move around in noisy environments.

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