Original paper co-authored with collaborators at Universiti Sains Malaysia has been published today: DNA Switch: Toehold-Mediated DNA Isothermal Amplification for Dengue Serotyping Soo Khim Chan, Akinori Kuzuya, Yee Siew Choong, and Theam Soon Lim* SLAS Discov., 2018, in press. (DOI: 10.1177/2472555218791743)
Hayden made his final presentation on July 18. Great job!
Our lab and university are just fine so far. Thank you very much for your kind messages.
An original paper written by Prof. Ohya has been published: Preparation of Biodegradable Oligo(lactide)s-Grafted Dextran Nanogels for Efficient Drug Delivery by Controlling Intracellular Traffic Yuichi Ohya,* Akihiro Takahashi, and Akinori Kuzuya Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2018, 16, 1606 (DOI: 10.3390/ijms19061606).
Mr. Hayden Pagendarm, an exchange student from Clemson University has joined our group. May this be happy and fruitful two months!
Our movie on “Molecular Swarm Robots” has been covered by “Biomedical Picture of the Day” managed by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences: “New Formation“.
An original paper on i-motif hydrogels has been published today: Bulk pH Responsive DNA Quadruplex Hydrogels Prepared by Liquid-Phase Large Scale DNA Synthesis Shizuma Tanaka, Shinsuke Yukami, Kazuki Fukushima, Kenta Wakabayashi, Yuichi Ohya,* and Akinori Kuzuya* ACS Macro Lett., 2018, 7, 295-299 (DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00063).
Our recent “Molecular Swarm Robots” paper has been covered by “Chemistry World” journal from The Royal Society of Chemistry: “Flocks of nanorobots could form artificial muscles“.
An original paper on “Molecular Swarm Robots”, which Aki contributed “DNA processors” to and has co-authored with Dr. Akira Kakugo of Hokkaido University, has just been published on Nature Communications! Jakia Jannat Keya, Ryuhei Suzuki, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Daisuke Inoue, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Kazuki Sada, Henry Hess, Akinori Kuzuya,* and Akira Kakugo,* “DNA-assisted swarm control… Read More »
A Mini-Review briefly explaining hydrogels utilizing G-quadruplexes has been published: Akinori Kuzuya* and Shizuma Tanaka “Hydrogels Utilizing G-Quadruplexes”, MOJ Poly. Sci. 2017, 1, 00033 (DOI: 10.15406/mojps.2017.01.00033).