April 17, 2023
(Axios) – As alarm over the fentanyl epidemic grows in the U.S., Republicans, including Donald Trump, are proposing military strikes against Mexican cartels, the Biden administration is urging Mexico and China to clamp down, and the leaders of those countries … Read More
March 29, 2023
(Scientific American) – In a paper published today in Nature, researchers report refashioning Photorhabdus’s syringe—called a contractile injection system—so that it can attach to human cells and inject large proteins into them. The work could provide a way to deliver … Read More
August 2, 2022
(Reuters) – South Koreans may soon be able to carry a device inside their own bodies in the form of a bespoke tattoo that automatically alerts them to potential health problems, if a science team’s project bears fruit. Researchers at … Read More
July 26, 2022
(Wired) – Scientists have tried several routes to attack the problem. The narrowest starts with the existing Covid mRNA vaccines and seeks to create updated boosters that target the virus’s most recent variants, an effort that drugmakers Moderna and Pfizer … Read More
May 13, 2022
(Wired) – Picture a spherical particle of silica, which functions as a chassis. Sánchez has shown that you can dot its surface with a mess of special proteins that propel the particle through fluid, like little motors. His lab has … Read More
May 12, 2022
(Science) – As any dietician will tell you, some fats are good—and that is surely true of the little fatty balls found in two of the world’s most widely used COVID-19 vaccines. Known as lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), these tiny bubbles … Read More
April 15, 2022
(Undark) – In the mid-1980s, as he was launching his academic career, psychiatrist Thomas Insel decided to research the neural pathways for social attachment. His work ended up documenting the important roles that the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin play in … Read More
February 19, 2021
(Washington Post) Scaling up production of formerly niche substances such as lipid nanoparticles for a global vaccine drive has been among the most complex challenges facing the Biden administration as it aims to ramp up the frustratingly slow provision of … Read More
December 4, 2020
(STAT News) – While the first two Covid-19 vaccines relying on messenger RNA technology speed toward regulatory approval in the U.S., it’s worth remembering the vehicle that gets them where they need to go in the body. Lipid nanoparticles are … Read More
October 24, 2019
(Newsweek) – The results of a clinic trial suggest medical nanotechnology could lead to new effective treatments for celiac disease and a rash of other ailments. The treatment, called CNP-101/TAK-101, was developed at Northwestern University. It utilizes microscopic nanoparticles in … Read More
