Chemistry

A new conductive “felt” carries electricity even when twisted, bent and stretched. Credit: Matthew Catenacci

April 3, 2018

Stretchable, Twistable Wires for Wearable Electronics

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New Rules Could Worsen The Opioid Crisis, Not Help It

April 2, 2018

Dr. Larry Greenblatt: New Rules Could Worsen The Opioid Crisis, Not Help It

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In the new technique, MRI chemical tags attach to a target molecule and nothing else – kind of like how Velcro only sticks to itself. Credit: tanakawho, via Flickr.

March 13, 2018

MRI Tags Stick to Molecules with Chemical “Velcro”

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Heat-loving thermophile bacteria may have been some of the earliest lifeforms on Earth. Researchers are studying their great great great grandchildren, like those living in Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring, to understand how these early bacteria repai

March 2, 2018

How Earth’s Earliest Lifeforms Protected Their Genes

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A portrait of Duke faculty member Warren S. Warren

February 9, 2018

The Optical Society Recognizes Duke Professor Warren S. Warren

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DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of a second, briefly morphing into alternative states that allow for mismatches as the molecule is copied. These spelling errors can drive evolution and disease.

January 31, 2018

A Mutational Timer is Built Into the Chemistry of DNA

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Three-in-one particles called trions — carrying charge, energy and spin — zoom through special polymer-wrapped carbon nanotubes at room temperature. Credit: Yusong Bai.

January 23, 2018

Farewell, Electrons: Future Electronics May Ride on New Three-in-One Particle

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New Marshall Scholars: John Lu, Meghana Vagwala and Antonio Lopez.

December 4, 2017

Two Duke Students, One Graduate Named Marshall Scholars

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The team’s new algorithm is able to simulate molecular configurations of supercooled liquids below the glass transition. The properties of these configurations are helping to solve a 70-year paradox about the entropy of glasses. Credit: Misaki Ozawa and A

November 2, 2017

Cheating Time to Watch Liquids do the Slow Dance

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Individual RNA molecules fluoresce inside a breast cancer cell. Credit: Sunjong Kwon, Oregon Health & Science University

October 13, 2017

Designing Drugs Aimed at a Different Part of Life’s Code

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The synthetic protein clamps down on the porphyrin like the jaws of an alligator. Credit: Nicholas Polizzi.

September 13, 2017

Lab-Made Protein Chomps Co-Factor Like a Big Ol’ Gator

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Drug-like molecule is being studied as a therapy for cancer, autoimmune disorders

August 17, 2017

Lab Tests Show Molecule Appears to Spur Cell Death in Tumors, Inflammation

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The Duke team used their 3D virus cam to spy on this small lentivirus as it danced through a salt water solution.

June 22, 2017

3D Virus Cam Catches Germs Red-Handed

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“There’s got to be a better way to do this. There’s got to be a way to put some sort of separation to keep nerves and bad situations like this from happening

June 21, 2017

Students Aim to Defuse Deadly Traffic-Stop Interactions

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Pages of hand-written calculations

May 30, 2017

Breaking Glass in Infinite Dimensions

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Duke Professor Warren Warren coaches a student in a laser lab

May 9, 2017

Duke Professor Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry

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