Zachary F Murguía Burton,Xiangkun Elvis Cao
Zachary F Murguía Burton
Many graduate students experience mental health struggles that lead them to question their place in academia. Two scientists who experienced extreme lows in graduate school reflect on what helped them during their low points, and suggest st...
Meng Li,Aniket Pal,Amirreza Aghakhani et al.
Meng Li et al.
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of applications, including soft grippers, artificial muscles, wearables, hapt...
Biomaterial-based delivery of antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections [0.03%]
基于生物材料的抗菌疗法递送体系用于细菌感染治疗
Pranav P Kalelkar,Milan Riddick,Andrés J García
Pranav P Kalelkar
The rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including strains that are resistant to last-resort antibiotics, and the limited ability of antibiotics to eradicate biofilms, have necessitated the development of alternative antibacterial therape...
Zhaoxu Tu,Yiling Zhong,Hanze Hu et al.
Zhaoxu Tu et al.
Inflammation plays an important role in the response to danger signals arising from damage to our body and in restoring homeostasis. Dysregulated inflammatory responses occur in many diseases, including cancer, sepsis and autoimmunity. The ...
Yu Ying Clarrisa Choong,Hong Wei Tan,Deven C Patel et al.
Yu Ying Clarrisa Choong et al.
3D printing enables on-demand solutions for a wide spectrum of needs ranging from personal protection equipment to medical devices and isolation wards. This versatile technology is suited to address supply-demand imbalances caused by socio-...
Chemistry and materials science for a sustainable circular polymeric economy [0.03%]
可持续循环聚合物经济的化学和材料科学
Vânia G Zuin,Klaus Kümmerer
Vânia G Zuin
Chemistry plays a determining role in every stage of the plastic life cycle. We reflect on the challenges and limitations of plastics - their sheer abundance, chemodiversity and imperfect recoverability leading to loss of material - and on ...
Jan-Georg Rosenboom,Robert Langer,Giovanni Traverso
Jan-Georg Rosenboom
Bioplastics - typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers - stand to contribute to more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin polymers are made from renewable or recycled raw m...
Ariane Vartanian
Ariane Vartanian
The 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting was a hybrid event for the first time, featuring both an in-person meeting in Boston and a virtual meeting held separately. Nature Reviews Materials speaks to Gopal Rao, Chief Editor of...
Mandana T Manzari,Yosi Shamay,Hiroto Kiguchi et al.
Mandana T Manzari et al.
Progress in the field of precision medicine has changed the landscape of cancer therapy. Precision medicine is propelled by technologies that enable molecular profiling, genomic analysis, and optimized drug design to tailor treatments for i...
Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines [0.03%]
结合植物分子农业和材料研究开发下一代疫苗技术
Young Hun Chung,Derek Church,Edward C Koellhoffer et al.
Young Hun Chung et al.
Biologics - medications derived from a biological source - are increasingly used as pharmaceuticals, for example, as vaccines. Biologics are usually produced in bacterial, mammalian or insect cells. Alternatively, plant molecular farming, t...