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Nanotech spiders: On track with molecular robotics

News: Nanotechnology    May 14, 2010
You have to love it when the lead scientists on a project say: “You could imagine the spider carrying a drug and bonding to a two-dimensional surface like a cell membrane, finding the receptors and, depending on the local environment,” adds Yan, “triggering the activation of this drug.” Such applications, while intriguing, are decades or [...]
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First time: Watching the unfolding story of proteins in living cells

News: Proteomics    March 1, 2010
Think of looking at cells in vitro (the biologists way of saying the cells are in a Petri dish or a test tube – ‘in glass’) as watching animals in a zoo. It looks relatively natural, but it isn’t. There could be differences, perhaps important differences between the way a cell behaves in vitro and [...]
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