When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don't fight them—throw them in the cellular trash. In a new study published in ...

Grove Biopharma, a private biotechnology company engineering protein-like polymers (PLPs) -- a new class of multifunctional biologics designed to address the most challenging intracellular drug ...

HYDRACs are a class of proteomimetic polymers designed to mark harmful proteins, like MYC and KRAS, for destruction rather than merely block their activity.

Scientists at Northwestern University and at the University of California San Diego have developed a potent injectable therapy that the results of rodent studies showed can protect the heart from ...

In the latest stride toward combating neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), a team led by Professor Nathan Gianneschi from the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern ...

We now generate huge amounts of plastic waste, especially in the packaging industry and agriculture. Oil-based polymers are becoming more and more expensive, due to rising oil prices that are due in ...

Europe and North America are driving expansion of bio-based polymer and bio-based building block capacity while Asia remains ...

A crucial ‘precursor’ has been identified in pathological protein fibril formation. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the ...