Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy

Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
(Northwestern University) The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of...

New Reagents Available For Genomic Engineering Of...
New tools are now available for generating specifically targeted genetic mutations in bacteria, mammalian cells and mice. The new recombinase, Dre, is similar to its predecessor, Cre, but...

Camera flash turns an insulating material into a...
(Northwestern University) An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash. A team of Northwestern University researchers has found a new way of turning...

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum...

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to...
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we...