Filming how our immune system kills bacteria
To kill bacteria in the blood, our immune system relies on nanomachines that can open deadly holes in their targets. LCN scientists have now filmed these nanomachines in action, discovering a key bottleneck in the process which helps to protect our own cells. The...
New SPIN-Lab at Imperial
LCN Professor Sandrine Heutz has been awarded £2 million from the EPSRC to fund a new state-of-the-art hub of magnetic characterisation SPIN lab in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. The facility includes equipment for the study of strongly...
Moving graphite particles in liquid using magnetism
A way of transporting tiny particles of graphite in liquid using magnetic fields has been developed by UCL scientists. It opens up possibilities for new ways of precisely transporting specific components in fluids, including in biocompatible fluids such as in the...