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Counting molecules with an ordinary cell phone
Diagnostic health care is often restricted in areas with limited resources, because the procedures required to detect many of the...
Feb 24, 20163 min read


Shaping Crystals with the Flow
One of goals of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) is to foster collaboration between different...
Feb 13, 20162 min read


Breaking cell barriers with retractable protein nanoneedles
In this time-lapse, retractable protein actuators called "R bodies" - found naturally in certain bacteria - are seen extending from...
Feb 11, 20162 min read


Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs
Cotton candy machines may hold the key for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. For several...
Feb 9, 20165 min read


A step closer to artificial cell division – by blowing bubbles
By blowing extremely small bubbles, researchers from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have...
Jan 23, 20162 min read


NanoOK: Quality Control for portable, rapid, low-cost DNA sequencing
Scientists at TGAC have been putting Oxford Nanopore’s MinION sequencer through its paces with an open-source, sequence alignment-based...
Dec 21, 20153 min read
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