Most people don't enjoy getting shots for treatments or vaccines. So, researchers are working to create more medicines, such as those made from messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inhaled.

Hydrogels are cross-linked networks of hydrophilic polymers that can absorb and retain more than 20% of their weight in water, while at the same time, maintaining the distinct 3D structure of the ...

An integrative approach to studying lipid biology Date: January 25, 2019 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: The proteins that manage lipids in the cell are notoriously ...

Electrophoretic accumulation of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with histidine tags (His-EGFP) coupled to a polymer-supported membrane containing 2mol% of chelator lipids. When using hydrophobic ...

Next, we elucidated an essential role of water molecules in the state-of-art mechanism in recognizing hydrophobic lipid chains by binding proteins. Finally, we developed versatile methodologies in ...

image: The surfactant-assisted purification of hydrophobic DNA nanostructures. view more Credit: Iwabuchi, S., Nomura, S.-i. M., Sato, Y., Cover Feature: Surfactant ...

Artificial polymers, like antibiotic peptides, need both hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains in their molecular structure to exert antibacterial activity. Now, researchers have synthesized a ...

Gamma Biosciences announced on March 22, 2022 an initiative through its subsidiary Mirus Bio, a specialist in nucleic acid delivery technology, to develop novel, highly active lipid-polymer ...

These lipid particles are an important step towards developing a model system for studying processes in natural cells. They could also one day be a component of artificial cells. Lipid vesicles (left: ...