Category: Chemical

So good for the synthesis of fluorescent lipid probes

Posted on by Emilie Chabot

RAFT polymerization and the Bioruptor® enable the preparation of a new class of lipid-ended polymer conjugates presenting reactive sites regularly distributed along the polymer chain. This technic allows Salim Adjili and colleagues to create original fluorescent lipid-polymer probes for optical microscopy. Find out more

Silica nanoparticles dispersion

Posted on by Emilie Chabot

Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) provide many possibilities in industrial, commercial, and biomedical fields. However little is known about the toxicological effects of SiNPs in the human. Caixia Guo and colleagues studied the impact of SiNP on the cardiovascular system. They sonicated stock suspensions of 58 nm SiNPs  with the Bioruptor® in order to minimize their aggregation. The best[…]