University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal – a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years. The team […]
The mineral schreibersite, e.g., Fe3P, is commonly found in iron-rich meteorites and could have served as an abiotic phosphorus source for prebiotic chemistry.
![Coupled bilayer nanopore concept for physical guiding, tracking and sizing of single molecules a, Fabrication schematic including EBL, etching, 2D materials transfer and AC-STEM sculpting. SiN nanopores constitute a GURU platform. Pore thicknesses are tSiN and t2D, diameters are dSiN and d2D and the total thickness is tGURU. Device configurations are denoted as [N, M] for N SiN pores and M 2D pores. σSiN and σ2D denote surface charge densities of SiN and 2D pores, respectively. The interlayer separation, L, can be experimentally controlled by the duration of RIE. -- Nature](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tricorder-Tech-Novel-Coupled-Nanopore.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
Editor’s note: As we begin to expand our search for life to other worlds we are going to need to be economical interms of the equipment we send and how […]
In a study published today (22 August) in Cell Reports Physical Science, a team led by Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel – a type of soft, flexible […]
“DNA, RNA and proteins are the key players to regulate all processes in the cells of our body,” Leiden Professor John van Noort explains. “To understand the (mis-)functioning of these […]
Who are we? Why are we here? As the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song suggests, we are stardust, the result of chemistry occurring throughout vast clouds of interstellar gas […]
Our understanding of the cellular adaptations to extreme conditions (such as acid, temperature, pressure and more), of the mechanisms underpinning the stability of macromolecules, and of the subtleties, complexities and […]
Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is an innovative microfluidic device mimicking the structure and functionality of real tissue. OOCs typically involve cell culture with microfluidics to emulate the biological forces of different organ […]
Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection of such bacteria is crucial in preventing outbreaks of foodborne illness. While the usual practice […]
Asgard archaea played a key role in the origin of the eukaryotic cell. While previous studies found that Asgard genomes encode diverse eukaryotic signature proteins (ESPs), representing homologs of proteins […]
