Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time
The latest artificial leaf hitches a lift on a punt on the River Cam
Researchers here have developed a floating, solar-powered device that can turn contaminated water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world
Scientists develop a way to modify proteins in their natural state for the first time
Dr Oded Rimon, courtesy Chemistry Photography
Scientists here have developed a system to modify naturally occurring proteins in a biological environment for the first time, opening a path to new therapies for illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.
The talk Clever Coatings with an interactive demonstration will be on the 25 October in the Wolfson Lecture Room at 6pm with Professor Stuart Clarke who will talk about novel coatings in our everyday life.
Congratulations to Megan Penrod who was awarded the Faraday Institution Community Award STEM Outreach Award recognising her work engaging and inspiring young people in science outreach.
First prize thesis awarded to ICE group Michael Davies
A diagram of the transition of water (left) to ice (right) made by the ICE group.
A PhD thesis from the Professor Angelos Michaelides’ ICE group was awarded this year’s 2023 Institute of Physics Computational Physics Group Thesis Prize.
New microscopy method sees how protein forms clusters in living cells
As part of the new method, the researchers used so-called HILO (highly inclined and laminated optical sheet) microscopy. Image courtesy of Thorsten Hugel, CIBSS, University of Freiburg
Using a newly developed microscopy method, researchers from Cambridge and Freiberg have been able to see for the first time how protein clusters form in living cells.
Super resolution microscopy may lead to better understanding of Alzheimer’s disease
Images of soluble tau using conventional microscopy (left) and super resolution microscopy (right), courtesy Klenerman Lab
Researchers have been able to observe and measure tau aggregates replicating in cells for the first time, in a key process that underpins the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
When a potentially useful molecule is first synthesised, it is often produced in quantities no larger than a pinch of salt. Oliver Griffiths has been scaling up promising reactions so that they are more useful for industrial applications.
Linking drugs together can be more effective at inhibiting protein function than a single drug. Radu Costin Bizga Nicolescu investigated how drugs can combine to be more effective against diseases such as cancer.
