Using light, red blood cells and a honey bee peptide to deliver therapeutic proteins

Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have engineered red blood cell (RBC) carriers that release therapeutic proteins when stimulated by light, with the help of a honey bee peptide.
4-Dec-2020 10:45 AM EST Add to Favorites

SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater solids could help monitor COVID-19 spread

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have discovered that measuring SARS-CoV-2 in settled solids from sewage treatment plants could be a more sensitive approach than measuring the virus in wastewater flowing into the...
4-Dec-2020 10:40 AM EST Add to Favorites

Patterning method could pave the way for new fiber-based devices, smart textiles

Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a method to pattern hundreds-of-meters-long multimaterial fibers with embedded functional elements.
20-Nov-2020 10:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

A more sensitive way to detect circulating tumor cells

Researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have developed a method that could more sensitively detect circulating tumor cells within the complex environment of blood.
13-Nov-2020 10:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

Antibiotic resistance genes in three Puerto Rican watersheds after Hurricane Maria

Researchers monitored antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in three Puerto Rican watersheds after Hurricane Maria, finding that the abundance and diversity of ARGs were highest downstream of WWTPs. They report their results in ACS’ Environmental...
13-Nov-2020 10:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

Brown carbon ‘tarballs’ detected in Himalayan atmosphere

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters have detected light-absorbing “tarballs” in the Himalayan atmosphere, which could contribute to glacial melt.
30-Oct-2020 10:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects of PFASs could depend on the presence of estrogen

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have used a combination of laboratory experiments and computer modeling to reveal that PFASs can interact with the estrogen receptor in different ways to influence...
23-Oct-2020 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Calcium bursts kill drug-resistant tumor cells

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have developed nanoparticles that release bursts of calcium inside tumor cells, inhibiting drug pumps and reversing MDR.
16-Oct-2020 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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