For years, chemist Lee Cronin of the University of Glasgow has dreamed of a future where researchers can distribute and produce molecules as easily as they email and print PDFs. That future has arrived thanks to Cronin and his colleagues, who have designed a system of chemical … [Read more...] about Revolutionary software translates chemist’s words into drug recipes
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These “nanotweezers” can pick up an individual molecule
Most likely you’ve used tweezers to take out a tough splinter. Now, engineers are taking the humble tweezer to a whole new level with tweezers so small and precise they can grab individual molecules. It may sound impossible, but the newly developed “nanotweezers”, built by … [Read more...] about These “nanotweezers” can pick up an individual molecule
