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Menstrual blood is usually discarded but it actually contains a plethora of biomolecules that can tell us information about your health! CELLECT, a start-up founded by CT Murphy from the University of Waterloo, aims to use menstrual blood and nanotechnology solutions to diagnose HPV and cervical cancer. Tune in to this episode to learn more!



About CT Murphy:

CEO and Founder of CELLECT. She was awarded the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)- Velocity scholarship, Velocity's Up Start Program, and Cornerstone Program. Her company was also recently covered by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). You can follow her LinkedIn here!



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Super amazing chemistry



References:

Ruizhe Chen et al.,Alcohol-alcohol cross-coupling enabled by SH2 radical sorting.Science383,1350-1357(2024).DOI:10.1126/science.adl5890

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/macmillan-lab-scores-alcohol-alcohol-cross-coupling-method-after-long-effort/#:~:text=The%20method%3A%20achieving%20alcohol%2Dalcohol,by%20powerful%20SH2%20radical%20sorting.&text=The%20alcohol%2Dalcohol%20paper%E2%80%94the,salt%20to%20form%20activated%20adducts.

The Nobel Prize winning scientists, Frances Arnold, has done it again! Her team have use directed evolution to engineer enzymes that can break down the strong carbon-silicon bonds found in many products we use everyday!



Reference:
Nicholas S. Sarai et al. ,Directed evolution of enzymatic silicon-carbon bond cleavage in siloxanes.Science383,438-443(2024). DOI:10.1126/science.adi5554



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Time for a nanolife interview with the one and only Dr Thomas Mortelmans who delves deep into his medical biosensor and how he came out his various inventions!

Check out his main biosensor work that we talk about here:


ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 1, 517–526

doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c03309

And you can follow and connect with Tom here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-mortelmans-ph-d-066a9a83/

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0677-5857


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In this lit update we talk about a carbon nanotube sensor discovery that shows the current in a carbon nanotube device can pass parallel or perpendicular to the tubes and the results will be different!

Reference:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02555  Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 21, 9817–9824

Let's review what we have accomplished, some of the missed research we didn't get to cover, and our favorite research in 2023!


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