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Molecular BioSystems News Archive

How does a virus bore a hole in a cell?
30 April 2008
Chemists studying how viruses enter cells say their results could help in the search for new antiviral medicines.

Quantum dots illuminate bacterial studies
30 April 2008
Fluorescent probes are shedding light on bacterial infection.

Interview: The protein detective
28 April 2008
Kathryn Lilley tells Michael Smith how curry and beer could be the downfall of biomarkers.

Plastic coats wrap up gene delivery
25 April 2008
UK chemists have used smart polymers to deliver DNA into cells.

Liquid crystals in all of us?
18 April 2008
European researchers spark debate as they claim that cell nuclei may contain liquid crystals.

Nerve agent detector on a chip
16 April 2008
A microfluidic device that can identify exposure to sarin could help identify individuals needing treatment at sites of terrorist attack.

Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.

Interview: Managing chaos
15 April 2008
Hagan Bayley talks to Laura Howes about the constraints of defining science and what he's learnt from the business world.

Cellular power plants fuel molecular motors
14 April 2008
Mitochondria have been used to power miniature motors for microfluidics.

Layered film offers NO control
03 April 2008
Nitric oxide releasing film provides 'significant step' towards molecule-based machines.

Computers get to the heart of gene expression
03 April 2008
Unravelling the genetic basis of heart disease by combining computational biology techniques.

Search for structures within articles
02 April 2008
RSC Prospect's new features allow you to do just that - and more

The rigid future of DNA labels
02 April 2008
How do you study DNA without affecting it? Chemists have linked fluorescent tags to DNA so that they do not alter the helix's stability.

Tumour treatments see the light
27 March 2008
DNA-seeking probes could deliver anticancer agents right to the heart of tumour cells, say chemists in Italy.

Interview: The science of herbal remedies
11 March 2008
Peter Houghton tells Joanne Thomson that there is still much to be learnt from traditional medicine.

Mapping the therapeutic secrets of the sea
06 March 2008
The world's oceans: an underexploited resource for potential new drugs?

Marine inspiration for biofilm break up
05 March 2008
Inspired by natural product oroidin, American scientists have developed compounds to disperse bacterial films linked to infection.

Interview: Putting peptides on the map
18 February 2008
Ruedi Aebersold talks to Kathleen Too about proteomics, the PeptideAtlas project and the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline.

