Professor Molly Stevens has become a recognised role model in science. She has won award after award and built a large and successful research group at Imperial College London.
Health
Cover story: diamond nanoneedle array
A dense diamond nanoneedle array for delivering fluorescent probes and drugs to a large number of cells for use on gene and cell therapy.
Topical Issue "Optoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy for Biomedical Diagnosis"
Bio-optical methods have been an essential tool for biological observation and clinical diagnosis, and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging is now emerging.
Raman spectroscopy pixel by pixel
Raman spectroscopy provides molecular specificity through spectrally-resolved measurement of the inelastic scattering under monochromatic excitation.
Laser pulses reveal DNA repair mechanisms
A new straightforward method, based on nonlinear photoperturbation, enables monitoring the response of nuclear proteins to DNA damage in time and space.
Producing precise hydrogels for medical applications
New work describes a strategy to produced hydrogels of precise stiffness for the organization of blood vessel cells into vascular structures.
Polypeptide-based polymersomes with great potential for cancer therapy
Polypeptide-based pH-sensitive polymersomes prepared by researchers from Changchun hold excellent promise as a drug delivery platform for cancer therapy.
Hottest Papers in Advanced Healthcare Materials – July 2013
Diagnosis of Dengue, targetting dendritic cells, thermal ablation of cancer, tissue adhesives, and the regenerative microenvironment for tissue healing.
Advances in Polymers for Stem Cell Research – From Laboratory to Clinic
The third and final part of the series “Advances in Polymers for Stem Cell Research” by guest-editor Suwan N. Jayasinghe has now started in Macromolecular Bioscience.
Porous microrobots born of lasers
Microrobots offer huge potential in medicine, particularly in the field of drug delivery.
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