Researchers in the lab of U-Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Asst. Prof. Sihong Wang have developed a hydrogel that retains the semiconductive ability needed to transmit information between living tissue and machine, which can be used both in implantable medical devices and non-surgical applications.

As the number and complexity of samples and drug products grows, pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations are facing challenges in storing samples requiring ultra-low temperatures. However, advanced solutions exist to overcome these challenges — solutions that introduce centralisation, automation, innovation, and third-party services to sample management.

Researchers have made use of experiments and computational modeling to study interactions between carbon molecules and clay minerals in the soil. They found that electrostatic charges, structural features of carbon molecules, surrounding metal nutrients in soil and competition among molecules all play major roles in the soil’s ability or inability to trap carbon.

Physicists have come up with a novel method of repurposing fish scale waste to effectively remove the pollutant Rhodamine B from water, and a material for information encryption. This method has the potential to reduce environmental impact and generate economic benefits.

Shimadzu has introduced Nexera XS inert, a bioinert and biocompatible Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (UHPLC) system. The inert features a metal-free sample flow that proves beneficial for analyzing biopolymers.

Researchers have made use of a novel AI-based method called Drfold to enhance the accuracy of RNA models by more than 70 percent when compared to traditional approaches.

Researchers are working to develop a small, implantable device which has the potential to sense and even treat cancer. This project has received a funding of 45 million dollars from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.

Origin-of-life chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that glyoxylate could have been the original source of sugars on the “prebiotic” Earth — a prerequisite for the development of life.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry — click chemistry — in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Carolyn Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms.

Scientists at Inserm, CNRS and the Université de Montpellier at the Structural Biology Center in Montpellier, France have built a small robot entirely from DNA and are using it to study cell processes that are invisible to the naked eye.