Applied Sciences

A fly’s sense of smell could be used in new technology to detect drugs and bombs, new University of Sussex research has found.

ExxonMobil Corporation is establishing an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University.

Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a drug delivery system consisting of nanoscale “cocoons” made of DNA that target cancer cells and trick the cells into absorbing the cocoon before unleashing anticancer drugs. The work was done by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A Kansas State University professor is researching ways to keep animals and humans safe from tick-borne diseases.

Scientists at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) recently received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find a unique biomarker that initiates and drives allergies. This grant expands on previous discoveries that led to the isolation of a type of white blood cells that show up only in people with allergic disease.














