This is doing the rounds in my messages with colleagues, and is a very real threat to the field of microscopy 😬.

Given one (published) microscope image probably costs between $100 and $10,000 (or more) to make - the lure of "oh I will just ChatGPT it" is very much there.

Multiplexed detection of viral pathogens on an AUTONOMOUSLY LOADING chip for point-of-care #diagnostics.

Congrats to first authors Beatrise Berzina and Krishna Gupta and the entire EKFZ-funded *VirChip* team!

Big congrats to Dr. Krishna Gupta for winning the best poster prize at Oxford Global’s NextGen Omics conference in London, where he presented our work on #LASSO pulldown polymers. 💪

LASSO is a new general-purpose method for fast and ultra-selective biomolecule purification.

Thanks to Advanced Functional Materials for highlighting our work on their back cover!

If you're working with pulldown assays but suffer from their low capacity, low flexibility, sub-optimal specificity, carryover contaminations, and high cost, you may want to check out LASSO.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested in testing it!

Just out in
@angewandtechemie.bsky.social!

#LASSO a new method for ultra-selective isolation of biomolecules (DNA, RNA, or protein).

This method uses a unique polymer phase separation mechanism to gently capture and pull down specific target sequences.

Exciting application of our programmable #CellCulture matrix #DyNAtrix.

By creating a mechanically reconfigurable microenvironment, we can now invert & guide epithelial cell polarity in real time.

#DNAnanotech

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