Posts Tagged: "physics"

Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi pioneers bioorthogonal chemistry to study molecules within living systems

Most fields of chemical science designed to look at biological process involving living molecules suffer from a rather serious drawback— studying those molecules within a living body without interfering with any other processes. Over the past two decades, however, an entirely new scientific field has opened up which enables the study of chemical reactions occurring within living systems with no interference to any biochemical processes native to that living system. Bioorthogonal chemistry was pioneered by Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, a 2017 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. This Thursday, October 5th, is the seventh anniversary of the date of issue of the patent for which Bertozzi has been inducted. As we often do, we’ll return to our Evolution of Tech series to see how this particular innovation was developed and how it helped to unlock a completely new field of scientific research.

Steve Brachmann

October 5, 2017

Large Hadron Collider could lead to more discoveries in antimatter and dark matter

The very tiniest particles that make up all of the matter that we can’t see are being discovered by the largest single machine ever created on planet Earth. With experiments having begun again at the Large Hadron Collider operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, teams of thousands of scientists are hopeful that discoveries of dark matter and antimatter may yield up important answers, perhaps in the next few months to such fundamental questions as “Why are we here?”

Steve Brachmann

February 25, 2015