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3-Jan-2025

New nanocrystal material a key step toward faster, more energy-efficient computing

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists including an Oregon State University chemistry researcher have taken a key step toward next-generation optical computing and memory with the discovery of luminescent nanocrystals that can be quickly toggled from light to dark and back again.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: Horizon 2020, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Spanish Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencias, Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid

3-Jan-2025

Researchers develop novel photopyroelectric tweezer for versatile manipulation

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study led by Dr. DU Xuemin, published in *The Innovation*, has reported a novelphotopyroelectric tweezer that combine the advantages of light and electric fields. Using a rationally designed photopyroelectric substrate with efficient and durable photo-induced surface charge-generation, it enables versatile manipulation in various working scenarios.

Journal: The Innovation

2-Jan-2025

Robert McKeown recognized for a half century of distinguished service

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

For nearly half a century, Robert D. “Bob” McKeown has probed nuclear particles and educated rising generations of physicists. Now, the former deputy director for science at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is being honored for his outstanding career contributions with the 2024 American Physical Society’s Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Distinguished Service Award.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

2-Jan-2025

Detecting disease with only a single molecule

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC Riverside scientists have developed a nanopore-based tool that could help diagnose illnesses much faster and with greater precision than current tests allow, by capturing signals from individual molecules.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

2-Jan-2025

New method turns e-waste to gold

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to organic materials.

Journal: Nature Communications

2-Jan-2025

Rice chemists create eco-friendly method to make chlorine-based materials for drugs and chemicals

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chlorine plays an essential part in daily life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of chemists at Rice University has developed a more environmentally friendly way to integrate chlorine into chemical building blocks for medications, plastics, pesticides and other essential products while reducing costs. This research was published in Nature Synthesis on Jan. 2.

Journal: Nature Synthesis
Funder: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Welch Foundation, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

2-Jan-2025

Based on AI-powered De novo Generation, Insilico Medicine nominates ISM1745 as preclinical candidate targeting PRMT5

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 2, 2025 — Insilico Medicine (‘Insilico’), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery and development company, today announced the nomination of ISM1745, a potentially best-in-class MTA cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor with AI-powered novel scaffold, as preclinical candidate (PCC) for the treatment of MTAP-deleted cancers. Based on de novo design results of Chemistry42, ISM1745 marks the fifth PCC nomination achieved by the Insilico team in the year of 2024, bringing the total number since 2021 to 22.