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Part of the set-up for creating medium-density amorphous ice: ordinary ice and steel balls in a jar (not amorphous ice)

New form of ice is like a snapshot of liquid water

02 Feb 2023
A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than...
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Medication

Method to predict drug stability could lead to more effective medicines

05 Mar 2018
Researchers from the UK and Denmark have developed a new method to predict the physical stability of drug candidates, which could help with the...
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Silk “micrococoons” could be used in biotechnology and medicine

19 Jul 2017
Researchers have manufactured microscopic versions of the cocoons spun by silkworms, which could be used to store sensitive proteins and other...
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Transmission electron microscopy image showing a molecular chaperone (the black dots) binding to thread-like amyloid-beta (Aβ42)

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer’s

16 Feb 2015
A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads to...
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The study built on previous work which created synthetic molecules known as “XNA”, then used these as the basis of creating so-called “XNAzymes”.

World’s first artificial enzymes created using synthetic biology

01 Dec 2014
Enzymes made from artificial molecules which do not occur anywhere in nature have been shown to trigger chemical reactions in the lab, challenging...
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