Investigating anti-viral chemicals that can be safely built into masks
This is an interview with Jiaxing Huang, professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, and Birgit Schwenzer, a program director in NSF’s Division of Materials Research. Huang has received a rapid response research (RAPID) grant to investigate anti-viral chemicals that ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 8, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
' Green' process promises pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic and other materials
A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of just about any carbon source into valuable graphene flakes. Tour said the “flash graphene” technique can convert a ton of coal, food waste or plastic into graphene for a fraction of the cost used ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 3, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Marc Abrahams founded the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in 1991. He is editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, and former editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Research. He has written 24 mini-operas (about heart repair, bacterial space exploration, atomic/human romance, species mixing, coffee chemistry, the Atkins Diet, human/sheep cloning, cockroaches, incompetence, and much else). He invents ways to make people curious about things they might otherwise avoid.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/wals/2019-2020/improbable-research-ig-nobel-prizes...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Tiny mealworms may hold part of the solution to the world's giant plastics problem.
Not only are mealworms able to consume various forms of plastic, new research from Stanford shows they can eat Styrofoam containing a common toxic chemical additive and still be safely used as protein-rich feedstock for other animals.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 16, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Poly-Aneuploid Cancer Cells: Actuators of Cancer Resistance
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Pienta is a Professor of Urology, Oncology, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as well an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. Between 1995 and 2013, Dr. Pienta served as the Director of the Prostate Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) at the University of Michigan and has served as co-PI of the Johns Hopkins Prostate SPORE from 2013-2018. He has a proven, peer-reviewed track record in organizing and administering a translational research program that successfully incorporates bench research...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
An NSF-supported small business is expanding on ways to make everything from biopesticides to...
In Middleton, Wisconsin, an NSF-supported small business is expanding on ways to make everything from biopesticides to vaccines – all on the surface of leaves! How does this innovative approach to chemical manufacturing help us use the greenest, most renewable chemical factories on earth? Ryan and ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
This research and outreach program is partially funded by an NSF CAREER Award.
When Scott Daly entered college after serving in the military, he wanted to take an introductory chemistry class. His academic advisor tried to dissuade him, encouraging him to avoid science classes because they are harder. But Scott refused to listen. Today, Scott is an assistant professor in the ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 18, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Chemist in the Nagib Laboratory at Ohio State
Researcher Sean Rafferty in the Nagib Laboratory at The Ohio State University, where chemists develop new molecules for drug development.
[Research supported in part by National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award CHE 1654656.]
To learn more about this research, ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 18, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Director's Seminar: Harnessing Intrinsic Fluorophore Chemistry to Build Better Imaging Agents
Director's Seminar Series
Existing fluorescent probes derive from a small set of core scaffolds initially developed for various abiological dye applications, and subsequently applied for biomedical research with minimal synthetic modification. Consequently, there exists a significant opportunity to develop molecules specifically tailored for use in modern imaging applications. Cyanine fluorophores are among the most broadly used fluorescent probes, despite poor chemical stability and modest photon output. To address these limitations, we develop new synthetic transformations that modify the core polymethine chromophore uni...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Innovation by evolution: bringing new chemistry to life
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Marshall W. Nirenberg Lecture
Not satisfied with nature ’ s vast catalyst repertoire, we want to create new protein catalysts and expand the space of genetically encoded enzyme functions. I will describe how we can use the most powerful biological design process, evolution, to optimize existing enzymes and invent new ones, thereby circumventing our profound ignorance of how sequence encodes function. Using mechanistic understanding and mimicking nature ’ s evolutionary processes, we can generate whole new enzyme families that catalyze synthetically important reactions n...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Scalable platforms for generating RNA sensors and controllers
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Lecture
Biosensors are key components in engineered biological systems that interface with the large biochemical space in living cells and their environment. Aptamers, functional nucleic acid molecules that bind ligands, provide a powerful sensing element for many classes of molecules of interest. Although procedures such as SELEX have been quite successful in generating individual aptamers that bind proteins, generating small molecule aptamers has been more challenging due to the need to chemically modify the ligand to permit the recovery of binding seq...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Chemogenetic Innovations in the Manipulation & Monitoring of Labeled Neurons Workshop
The purpose of this BRAIN Initiative workshop is to bring together chemists, cell biologists, and neuroscientists to discuss what is needed to improve and apply chemogenetics to drive neuroscience forward. The goal will be to inform participants about areas of pressing need for neuroscience and limitations of current methods to manipulate neuronal activity or label neurons.For more information go tohttps://braininitiative.nih.gov/Air date: 12/10/2019 8:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Camera brings unseen world to light
Researchers have developed a highly compact, portable camera that can image polarization in a single shot. The miniature camera -- about the size of a thumb -- could find a place in the vision systems of autonomous vehicles, on board planes or satellites to study atmospheric chemistry, or be used ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 29, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn  t Hear About This Week  Episode 31
A Squishy RubikÂs Cube® that Chemists Built from Polymers Holds Promise for Data Storage
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Magnetic kit simulates molecular self-assembly
University at Buffalo chemist Timothy Cook is working with K-12 science teachers in Buffalo to design 3D-printed structures made from magnetic parts that self-assemble when shaken. These models help kids visualize processes similar to those occurring in real life when scientists design ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 20, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
