January 9, 2020
Chongli Yuan, a Purdue University chemical engineering professor, is a leader of Purdue’s section of a multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells as a possible solution to the replacement of damaged or dead neurons.
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Noticing the protein’s brown color, Iskander Ibrahim and Sujith Puthiyaveetil (right) determined that CSK contains an iron-sulfur cluster that senses electron transport during photosynthesis. The CSK protein plays a key role in balancing light energy conversion by cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2020
A Purdue University study may hold the key to accurately and consistently producing microbubbles that could be used for cleaning, as well as foams used in foods, rapid DNA and protein assessments, destroying dangerous bacteria and more.
Read MoreJanuary 7, 2020
A simple new method from Purdue University scientists could help cut down the amount of food waste – and provide another renewable source of clean energy.
Read MoreJanuary 7, 2020
W. Andy Tao, a Purdue University professor of biochemistry, and colleagues have developed a method to implant a chemical label that acts like a GPS tracker into live salmonella bacteria. Once inside the bacteria, the probe can be captured at any given time, showing in real time the proteins interacting with the bacteria.
Read MoreDecember 19, 2019
Children with Down syndrome may be born with low muscle tone and a protruding tongue, which makes it more challenging to speak and eat. Hannah Ferrill, a Purdue University alumna in industrial design from Purdue’s College
of Liberal Arts, has developed a jaw-strengthening teether.
December 18, 2019
Companies are moving toward installing more double-sided solar panels. A new formula reveals exactly how much more electricity double-sided panels can generate compared to conventional single-sided panels, helping to better inform how the panels are designed.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2019
A wearable monitoring device to make treatments easier and more affordable for the millions of people with swallowing disorders is about to be released into the market.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2019
Purdue University drug discovery researchers have created a new framework for mining data for training machine learning models. The framework, called Lemon, helps drug researchers better mine the Protein Data Base (PDB) – a comprehensive resource with more than 140,000 biomolecular structures and with new ones being released every week.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2019
Infrared cameras detect people and other objects by the heat they emit. Now, researchers have discovered the uncanny ability of a material to hide a target by masking its telltale heat properties.
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