{"id":134187,"date":"2022-01-17T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chemists-use-dna-to-build-the-worlds-tiniest-antenna"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:22:20","slug":"chemists-use-dna-to-build-the-worlds-tiniest-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chemists-use-dna-to-build-the-worlds-tiniest-antenna","title":{"rendered":"Chemists use DNA to build the world\u2019s tiniest antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-use-dna-to-build-the-worlds-tiniest-antenna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported this week in <i>Nature Methods<\/i>, the device is a new method to monitor the structural change of proteins over time\u2014and may go a long way to helping scientists better understand natural and human-designed nanotechnologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results are so exciting that we are currently working on setting up a start-up company to commercialize and make this nanoantenna available to most researchers and the pharmaceutical industry,\u201d said UdeM chemistry professor Alexis Vall\u00e9e-B\u00e9lisle, the study\u2019s senior author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported this week in Nature Methods, the device is a new method to monitor the structural change of proteins over time\u2014and may go a long way to helping scientists better understand natural and human-designed nanotechnologies. \u201cThe results are so exciting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}