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“DNA bricks” used to build structures
Dr. Peng Yin, a 2012 New Innovator Awardee, and Dr. William Shih, a 2008 New Innovator Awardee, describe a new method to build complicated three-dimensional structures using “DNA bricks.”
Read more about this new method here or here.
Learn more about Drs. Yin and Shih below.
Dr. Peng Yin
Dr. William Shih
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Stress-Amplifying Protein Linked to Diabetes
Dr. Feroz Papa, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award recipient discovers a molecule amplifying stress in the earliest stages of diabetes.
Read the news release here.
Learn more about Dr. Papa’s New Innovator Award here
Acoustic Tweezers: Touchless Trapping and Manipulation
Dr. Tony Jun Huang, an associate professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State University, and a 2010 New Innovator Awardee, developed a device that is the first technology capable of manipulating objects including living materials, such as blood cells and small organisms, using sound waves.
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