New Design Rules for Ribosomal Monomers
Northwestern synthetic biologists have developed a new set of design rules that allows a ribosome to incorporate new kinds of monomers, which could eventually help create new materials and therapeutics.
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Measuring Flexibility: New Thickness-dependent Metric Compares Materials
Professor G. Jeffrey Snyder led the development of a figure of merit for flexibility that considers thickness and compares yield strain of materials for flexible electronics.
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