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Molecular-weight size marker

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Polydimethylsiloxane microstructure-induced acoustic streaming for enhanced ultrasonic DNA fragmentation on a microfluidic chip

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Thomas Lehnert

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is an essential technology for DNA identification in genomic research. DNA fragmentation is a critical step for NGS and doing this on-chip is of great interest for future integrated genomic solutions. Here we demonstrate fa ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Direct Monitoring of γ-Glutamyl Transpeptidase Activity In Vivo Using a Hyperpolarized (13) C-Labeled Molecular Probe

Arnaud Comment, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara, Emine Can, Yuhei Takado

The γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) enzyme plays a central role in glutathione homeostasis. Direct detection of GGT activity could provide critical information for the diagnosis of several pathologies. We propose a new molecular probe, γ-Glu-[1-(13) C]Gly, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Soft nanofluidics governing minority ion exclusion in charged hydrogels

Songmei Wu, Thomas Michael Braschler, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber

We investigate ionic partition of negatively charged molecular probes into also negatively charged, covalently crosslinked alginate hydrogels. The aim is to delimit the domain of validity of the major nanoelectrostatic models, and in particular to assess t ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Inkjet Printed Nanohydrogel Coated Carbon Nanotubes Electrodes For Matrix Independent Sensing

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Véronique Amstutz

Polyacrylamide (PA) based hydrogels are used in several applications including polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and sensing devices. Homogeneous and compact PA films can be prepared based on chemical or photopolymerization processes. However, the accurat ...

2015

Molecular Analysis of NOTCH2 in Patients with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

Background and Purpose: Transgenic mice over-expressing Notch2 in the uvea exhibit a hyperplastic ciliary body leading to increased IOP and glaucoma. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible presence of NOTCH2 variants in patients with primary ...

Georg Thieme Verlag Kg2015

Probing the size of proteins with glass nanopores

Aleksandra Radenovic, Melanie Blokesch, Roman Bulushev, Lorenz Jan Steinbock, Lely Feletti

Single molecule studies using nanopores have gained attention due to the ability to sense single molecules in aqueous solution without the need to label them. In this study, short DNA molecules and proteins were detected with glass nanopores, whose sensiti ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Molecular gelation of ionic liquid-sulfolane mixtures, a solid electrolyte for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Jean-David Décoppet

Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid-[4-(3-tetradecylureido)phenyl]amide is an efficient gelator to solidify ionic liquid electrolytes. In this paper we apply this low molecular weight gelator to solidify the newly prepared sulfolane based ionic liquid electrolyte. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

DNA delivery with hyperbranched polylysine: A comparative study with linear and dendritic polylysine

Harm-Anton Klok, Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Zuzana Kadlecova

PEI and polylysine are among the most investigated synthetic polymeric carriers for DNA delivery. Apart from their practical use, these 2 classes of polymers are also of interest from a fundamental point of view as they both can be prepared in different ar ...

Elsevier2013

Global Solutions to a Non-Local Diffusion Equation with Quadratic Non-Linearity

Joachim Krieger

In this paper we prove the global in time well-posedness of the following non-local diffusion equation with

\alpha\, \varepsilon [0, 2/3)

\partial_tu=\{(-\Delta)^{-1}u\}\Delta u+\alpha u^2, \,\, u(t=0)=u_0

. The initial condition

u_0

is positive, rad ...

2012

Assessing the Bacterial Ecology of Organohalide Respiration for the Design of Bioremediation Strategies

Noam Shani

Groundwater is essential for human activities and is sometimes referred to as a non-renewable resource in the same way as oil and gas. During the past century, precious groundwater reserves worldwide have been threatened by anthropogenic release of chemica ...

EPFL2012

Tailoring hydrogel degradation and drug release via neighboring amino acid-controlled ester hydrolysis

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Matthias Lütolf, Yun Suk Jo

We present a versatile scheme to rationally modulate the hydrolysis rate of ester bonds in hydrophilic polymer networks via adjacent charged amino acids. As soluble model systems, two cysteine-bearing oligopeptides containing either positively charged argi ...

2009

Genetic diversity of cyanobacterial communities in Lake Kinneret (Israel) using 16S rRNA gene, psbA and ntcA sequence analyses

The genetic diversity of cyanobacterial communities was studied at various depths in Lake Kinneret (Israel). Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of specific 16S rRNA gene PCR products showed significant differences in the cyanobacterial communit ...

2007

The use of RNA interference to increase PEI-mediated transient gene expression in mammalian cells

Martin Bertschinger

DNA uptake by polyethylenimine (PEI)-mediated transfection was investigated in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO DG44) cells. Rapid DNA uptake was observed with the maximum occurring during the first 45-60 min after addition of PEI-DNA complexes to cells. With lo ...

EPFL2006

Polyelectrolyte complex formation at defined interfaces and structure formation in solution studied by analytical ultracentrifugation

Laurent Bourdillon

The interactions and structural formation of polyelectrolytes in solution and environmental stimuli-responsive water-soluble polymers are subjects of intense academic research, development, and application. An increasing number of novel materials are being ...

EPFL2006