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!

Seems to be a weird compression artifact (?) What does the journal say? The author seems to be helpful in providing the raw images (though the scale bar is indeed off :D)

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it.

Commentary in @natnano.nature.com

#nanotechnology

DyNAtrix also allowed us to measure "resonance bands" of the cell's mechanical interactions with their environment, revealing the timescales at which these interactions take place.

(Check out Supp. Info. Note S1 to understand how exactly this works) 🤓

#Mechanobiology

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Here you see a kidney cyst inverting its polarity after we added synthetic DNA signals.

These signals enter the material and "flip switches" that change its stress-relaxation time.

For the first time, switching ECM stress-relaxation can be done reversibly and during an ONGOING cell culture!

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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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