Mimicking viruses from inside out using DNA origami
The cover of the current issue of ACS Synthetic Biology highlights the work of a research team from UCL, the LCN and NPL to engineer a programmable inside-out “virus”. This everted “virus” is designed to deliver functional proteins into live cells. The synthetic virus...
Inhibiting the growth of the world’s largest gas resource
Natural gas hydrates may be a vast untapped energy resource but they cause severe problems in oil and gas pipelines and are potent greenhouse gases. To improve our understanding of these problematic compounds methane hydrate was studied using neutrons. Natural gas...
Holes Self-Organise and Conduct Electricity with Fractional Charge
A collaborative project involving LCN Professor, Sir Michael Pepper, along with Dr Maksym Myronov (University of Warwick), Dr Stuart Holmes (Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge Research Laboratory), Mr Yilmaz Gul and Dr Sanjeev Kumar, has shown that holes (the absence...
Building a nano-scale filter using DNA
Inspired by biological filters, scientists at UCL, Imperial College London and Yale University have designed and built a nanometre-sized pore that helps us to better understand the complex way by which cells transport genetic material and viruses. Image:...