Jan 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of generating artificial enzymes from scratch. In laboratory tests, some of these enzymes worked as well as those found in nature, even when their artificially generated amino acid sequences diverged significantly from any known natural protein....
Plant-based insulation materials as CO2 sinks?
Jan 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Empa researchers want to develop a novel type of insulating material from plant-based raw materials or waste products that can permanently bind the CO2 it contains by means of a special heat treatment – and thus act as a CO2 sink. What's more, once the...
Team aims to find ‘Earth 2.0’
Jan 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Are there other Earth-like planets? Is there extraterrestrial life? In the quest to find planets that orbit stars other than the sun, “Earth 2.0” is the Holy Grail. Earth 2.0 is a planet similar enough to Earth to enable the existence of life as we...
Physicists solve mystery of two-dimensional quasicrystal formation from metal oxides
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide brakes-up at high temperatures by adding barium; instead of regular hexagons, rings of four, seven and ten atoms are created that order aperiodically. A team at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) made this discovery in colaboration with researchers from...
Targeting cancer with a multidrug nanoparticle
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Treating cancer with combinations of drugs can be more effective than using a single drug. However, figuring out the optimal combination of drugs, and making sure that all of the drugs reach the right place, can be challenging. To help address those challenges, MIT chemists...
An open-source stopwatch to time activities between molecules inside living cells
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A stopwatch to investigate what happens inside living cells at a thousandth of a millisecond scale: this is the open-source platform BrightEyes-TTM developed by the research team led by Giuseppe Vicidomini at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology). BrightEyes-TTM is the first instrumentation...