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Sustained Stretching Reshapes Keratin Cytoskeleton in Epithelial Cells

Prolonged mechanical stress induces a dramatic keratin reorganization, affecting nuclear protection and offering insights into cellular resilience mechanisms.

5 Aug 2026

Northwestern Chemists Repurpose Flexible DNA as Programmable Molecular Glue

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

30 Jul 2026

A Bio-Based Janus Dressing That Targets Bacteria At Wound Sites

Bio-based furan polyamide dressings effectively direct antibiotic release, offering a sustainable solution for early bacterial control in wounds.

27 Jul 2026

Tescan Unveils the New CLARA to Help Researchers See More at the Nanoscale

Tescan has introduced the new generation of Tescan CLARA™, an ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscope for nanoscale materials characterization.

From Tescan 24 Jul 2026

Supramolecular Shampoo Uses Self-Assembly to Replace Polymer Thickeners

Researchers developed a laboratory-scale polymer-free shampoo in which sodium cocoyl glycinate acts as both a cleansing surfactant and a supramolecular gelator. The formulation retained shear-thinning behavior, produced persistent foam, and remained stable during three months of accelerated aging and freeze-thaw testing.

12 Jul 2026

Dying Bacterial Communities Eject Cells Just Like Sci-Fi Escape Pods

Popular science fiction is no stranger to escape pod scenarios, typically featuring characters who narrowly avoid their demise by jettisoning from a spaceship - think R2-D2 and C-3PO shooting away from a rebel spaceship in the opening of Star Wars: A New Hope.

7 Jul 2026

New Protein Discovery Reveals How Bacteria Transport Complex Sugars

Even though sugars are often framed as simple sources of energy, they also serve as structurally complex and functionally diverse molecules that mediate interactions between organisms.

1 Jun 2026

Nanoparticles Boost Delivery of Lung Cancer Drugs 30-Fold

Lung cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest cancers, yet despite decades of effort to develop new drugs, many fail because they don’t stay in the body long enough to be effective or because they damage healthy organs.

1 Jun 2026

Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals How Anabaena Maintains Its Rectangular Shape

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape Planet Earth. Among them are cyanobacteria that produced the oxygen in our atmosphere and made complex life possible, captivating scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) report a surprising new discovery-a system thought to separate DNA has developed to sculpt the shape of the cell in cyanobacteria instead. The results, published in Science, shed light on how protein systems evolve and how multicellularity emerged in this type of ecologically essential bacteria.

17 Apr 2026

Scientists Create Charge-Free Polymer to Improve Gene Therapy Delivery

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new molecule which carries DNA into biological cells, to treat or vaccinate against illnesses.

23 Feb 2026

Nobel Prize-Awarded Material That Puncture and Kill Bacteria

Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in healthcare when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or in catheters.

27 Nov 2025

Nanoplastics Can Cross Plant Root Barriers and Enter Food

Polystyrene nanoplastics were found to translocate in radishes, suggesting a pathway for human dietary exposure and emphasizing the need for safety strategies.

24 Sep 2025

Carbon Starvation Drives Metabolic and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Grapevine Cells

Plants rely on sugars not only as energy sources but also as regulators of cellular activities. Carbon starvation disrupts central metabolism, impairs growth, and forces cells to recycle stored resources.

18 Sep 2025

Scientists Engineer E. Coli To Produce Plastic-Building Chemical

This study reveals a novel pathway in E. coli for synthesizing 2,5-pyridinedicarboxylate from glucose, offering a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

10 Sep 2025

Injectable Hydrogels Use Milk-Derived Vesicles to Promote Tissue Regeneration

Researchers from Columbia Engineering have established a framework for the design of bioactive injectable hydrogels formulated with extracellular vesicles (EVs) for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.

29 Jul 2025

Customizable, Fast-degrading Food Wrap to Cut Landfill

Research on chitosan-PCL films reveals enhanced durability and biodegradability, offering sustainable solutions for food packaging and pollution reduction.

23 Jul 2025

SWEET13 Gene Unlocks Sugar Accumulation in Sorghum Grains

Sorghum millet is seen as the crop plant of the future: It builds up a particularly high amount of biomass and thrives in harsh conditions.

17 May 2025

Engineers Turn the Body’s Goo Into New Glue

Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine mollusks cluster atop rocks and along the bottoms of ships, and hold fast against the ocean’s waves thanks to a gluey plaque they secrete through their foot.

19 Feb 2025

Triple Click Chemistry Revolutionizes Synthesis of Functionalized Triazoles

Middle molecules with a molecular weight of more than 1,000 are difficult to synthesize due to multiple steps and time-consuming nature, demanding the development of a new approach that can overcome these disadvantages.

12 Feb 2025

Bacterial Growth in Mucus Leads to Formation of Cable-Like Structures

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other, building a kind of "living Jell-O."

20 Jan 2025