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Interested in pursuing an academic career in North America? And simultaneously sharing all the fun of science online? Tune in to this nanolife interview with Prof. Ben Meekins, the mastermind behind OpenSciencePresentations ! Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay

Incoming lit update! Check out new research that shows nanocages made from DNA are able to capture a wide range of viruses! References:  Broad-Spectrum Virus Trapping with Heparan Sulfate-Modified DNA Origami Shells so fresh no official journal page, etc.  https://cen.acs.org/articles/100/i41/DNA-nanoshells-trap-broad-spectrum.html  Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay

Atoms, they're everywhere! They're the building blocks of everything but you can't see them with your naked eye, now you can!  Sumaiya, S. A.; Liu, J.; Baykara, M. Z. True Atomic-Resolution Surface Imaging and Manipulation under Ambient Conditions via Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy. ACS Nano 2022 . Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay

Have you heard of CRISPR, the ground breaking gene editing technology? The one that got Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020? This technology was repurposed by researchers from Fudan University to detect cell free DNA! Tune in to learn more! References: Yang, B.; Kong, J.; Fang, X. Programmable CRISPR-Cas9 microneedle patch for long-term capture and re...

Have you heard of CRISPR, the ground breaking gene editing technology? The one that got Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020? This technology was repurposed by researchers from Fudan University to detect cell free DNA! Tune in to learn more!

Fun lit update on Monika's favorite topic haha!! References https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-022-00798-8#Sec5 https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/leading-experts-suggest-guidelines-assessing-emerging-transistor

Breast and ovarian cancer are some of the most common cancer for females worldwide. As cancer treatment technology continue to advance, scientists in Israel learned that the physiological processes during the different menstruation phases can affect the efficiency of breast and ovarian cancer treatment!  Reference: Poley, M.; Mora-Raimundo, P.; Shammai, Y.; Kaduri, M.; Koren, L.; Adir, O.; Sh...

Did you know that the physiological processes during the different menstruation phases can affect the efficiency of breast and ovarian cancer treatment? Tune in to learn how scientist in Israel learned about this!

Today we will be talking about safety in nanoscience and technology labs!!!  Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-019-0375-x https://www.labsafety.org/lab-safety-terrifying-statistics https://cen.acs.org/safety/lab-safety/10-years-Sheri-Sangjis-death/97/i1 https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/tert-butyl-lithium-or-t-buli/3007986.article

We conclude the end of Season 1 with a special interview episode with soon-to-be Dr. Simone Pengue, who is pursuing his PhD in biophysics and an avid science communicator. This passion led him to be the Grand Prize winner of the Prix Media Newcomer 2021 for the FORGOTTEN DATA: the Leftovers of Science documentary. He will share his experiences as a science journalist while being a PhD candidate at...

In his spare time, Simone enjoys finding parallels between literary arts work and scientific phenomenon. It's a real life scientific mystery adventure! 

Data classification, organization, and utilization is a pretty dry topic but Simone successfully made an engaging documentary about it! What made him explore this topic in the first place?

Today we will be discussing superhydrophobics coatings using nanofluids, and what is special about this research is that that is comes from easily accessible materials such as silica! References: https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=39211 Esmaeilzadeh, P. et al. (2022). T uning the Wetting Properties of SiO2-Based Nanofluids to Create Durable Surfaces with Special Wettability for Self-Cleaning...

Many researchers now are working on miniaturizing and simplifying laboratory processes so that they can be easily used in places such as bed-side hospitals, pharmacies, and ambulances. In this lit update, researchers from UC Davis developed a sensitive nanofiber based immunoassay patch! Tune in to learn more! Reference: Cunyi Zhao, Bofeng Pan, Minyuan Wang, Yang Si, Ameer Y Taha, Gangyu Liu, Tingr...

Tune in to this episode to learn more about how researchers simplify and miniaturize laboratory techniques to be used outside the lab!

In this week's lit update, we are discussing the recently discovered "Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals" and in this work, the researchers have uncovered ways for types of these chiral liquid crystals to change colors with the use of an electric field! Neat!

In today's lit update, we are discussing the recently discovered "Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals" and in this work, the researchers have uncovered ways for types of these chiral liquid crystals to change colors with the use of an electric field! Neat!  References:  Feng, C., Saha, R., Korblova, E.,  Walba, D., Sprunt, S. N., & Jákli, A. (2021). Electrically Tunable  ...

Did you know that cooking with oil lead to thin oil film deposits on indoor surfaces? These oily deposits can attract water, which can cause bacterial growth and chemical reactions! Tune in to learn what scientists from University of San Diego and University of Texas learned about how the chemical composition of the oil deposits affect how water films form on glass! Reference: Victor W. Or, Michae...

Did you know that cooking with oil lead to thin oil film deposits on indoor surfaces? These oily deposits can attract water, which can cause bacterial growth and chemical reactions! Tune in to the upcoming episode to learn what scientists from University of San Diego and University of Texas learned about how the chemical composition of the oil deposits affect how water films form on glass!

Excessive bleeding during surgery or trauma must be stopped immediately before it becomes deadly. In this lit update, scientists from Nankai University developed a chitosan, derived from shrimp shells, microchannelled sponge-like hemostats using 3D printing that can stop bleeding within 2 minutes! Reference: Du, X., Wu, L., Yan, H. et al. Microchannelled alkylated chitosan sponge to treat noncompr...

Tune in to the new episode to learn how shrimp shells can be used to prevent excessive bleeding!

In today's awesome lit update, we talk about lithium-air-breathing batteries! (LABs!) Wait, what?! Now these lithium air-breathing batteries, often known as LABs or LOBs as in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries don’t actually have lungs! Their operation is based on the metal-air interface to function. Tune in to learn more and check out the full research here: Kim, Hyun‐Soo, Boran Kim, Hyunyoung Park, Jongs...

Teaser for our upcoming episode discussing new research on lithium - air batteries! Kim, Hyun‐Soo, Boran Kim, Hyunyoung Park, Jongsoon Kim, and Won‐Hee Ryu. " Auto‐Oxygenated Porphyrin‐Derived Redox Mediators for High‐Performance Lithium Air‐Breathing Batteries. " Advanced Energy Materials (2022): 2103527.

We constantly hear that personalized medicine is the medicine of the future but when will this become a reality? Researchers in this field are constantly making progress and one of the most recent developments is from researchers in Israel and China who made wearable microneedle sensors for continuous sodium monitoring!  Reference: Zheng, Y. et al . A Wearable Microneedle-Based Extended Gate...

We constantly hear that personalized medicine is the medicine of the future but when will this become a reality? Researchers in this field are constantly making progress and one of the most recent developments is from researchers in Israel and China who made wearable microneedle sensors for continuous sodium monitoring!