May 04, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When you hear the word “nanomedicine,” it might call to mind scenarios like those in the 1966 movie “Fantastic Voyage.” The film portrays a medical team shrunken down to ride a microscopic robotic ship through a man’s body to clear a blood clot in his...
Scientists engineer new tools to electronically control gene expression
May 04, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers, led by experts at Imperial College London, have developed a new method that allows gene expression to be precisely altered by supplying and removing electrons. This could help control biomedical implants in the body or reactions in large ‘bioreactors’ that produce drugs and other...