Over the past few decades, material scientists and chemists have been working on designing increasingly sophisticated materials for a wide range of technological and scientific applications. These ...

Polarized epithelial cells form barriers that separate the inner and outer layers of various organs such as kidney, colon, lung, and mammary glands. Epithelial barriers are essential for controlling ...

Scientists have demonstrated that they can measure the amount of DNA in a sample within minutes using only magnetic beads, a laboratory stir plate, and a digital camera (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...