Predicting Chemical Interactions Drug discovery initially relied on randomly testing new chemical compounds or trying to find active compounds in nature and traditional medicine. A more...
New Tools For Old Diagnosis Since the dawn of medicine, many diagnostics rely on the visual inspection of a patient. This is still true for ear...
Blood Clotting Medicines Managing blood clotting is very important for medical professionals. We discussed previously how synthetic platelets could be used to induce emergency clotting in...
Graphene Made Of Boron Material sciences keep making new discoveries, one of them being 2D materials. They are materials organized into a thin layer of only...
Rare Diseases – Curing The Incurable While not entirely solved, a lot of major deadly illnesses that have plagued humanity have become more manageable over the...
“Curing” Bleeding with Artificial Platelets A lot of deaths from injuries and accidents are linked to blood loss. While not as discussed as cancer, cardiovascular, or...
The CRISPR Revolution CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a recently discovered tool for genetic editing. It allows for very precise and directed gene editing,...
Why the Flu Shot Fails So Often Some virus species are more likely to mutate and evolve quickly than others. Among the champions of rapid changes...
Antiviral Surfaces The Covid pandemic highlighted the importance of keeping surfaces clean. But this was far from news for hospitals and other sensitive areas struggling to...
Biotech To Limit Fossil Fuel Pollution The rise of shale oil & gas production in the US has been a major change in the global energy...
Turning Methane From A Climate Bomb To A Resource Methane (CH4), the main component of natural gas, is a greenhouse gas (GHG) 28x more potent than CO2....
Improving Gene Therapy In December 2023, the FDA made history by approving the first human gene therapy for sickle cell disease. This was quite a revolution...
Homeownership, A Fading Dream? Rising prices and rising interest rates in the last few years have made homeownership increasingly difficult to achieve. This is especially true...
The CRISPR Revolution CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a recently discovered tool for genetic editing. It allows for very precise and directed gene...
Graphene's Semiconductor Missed Potential Graphene has long been considered a miracle material, with exceptional characteristics that may play a role in next-gen semiconductors. Its perception as a...