The antimicrobial triclosan is widely used in personal hygiene products, textiles and plastics, but when it enters the environment via wastewater, it poses a significant threat to aquatic organisms.

Engineers have created a bacteria-filtering membrane using graphene oxide and bacterial nanocellulose. It's highly efficient, long-lasting and environmentally friendly -- and could provide clean water ...

We demonstrated that positive polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) have great potential for conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems because of the induction protein enrichment on ...

Viruses can spread not only via droplets or aerosols like the new coronavirus, but in water, too. In fact, some potentially dangerous pathogens of gastrointestinal diseases are water-borne viruses. To ...

As someone who's been writing about cool developments in the tech space for far too long now, I'm quite familiar with graphene. I can't go a few months without reading about some new use for this ...

A team of Korean researchers have made a membrane that can turn saltwater into freshwater in minutes. The membrane rejected 99.99% of salt over the course of one month of use, providing a promising ...

The production of viruses, whether for use as viral vaccines, viral vectors for gene therapy, or oncolytic applications, requires complex processes that can translate into high costs, as well as slow ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 8 (February 25, 2020), pp. 4400-4410 (11 pages) Rod and cone photoreceptor outer segment (OS) structural ...