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The sense of touch is keen enough to detect tiny differences in the chemical composition of surfaces — and by tiny we mean nanometers. University of Delaware researcher Charles Dhong will present his recent work on this and how changes in materials could enable important changes in technology Wednesday at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in San Diego.

Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights. Researchers at UC Davis have developed a transgenic, or genetically modified, lettuce producing a drug to protect against bone density loss in microgravity. The work will be presented March 22 at the Spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego.