New Discovery from the Gibson’s group on Anionic Polymers to prevent phage infection in bacterial cultures

The NanoCarb ESR Ashfaq Ahmad (University of Warwick, Gibson group) has co-authored a new paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).  Biological and biomedical research involving growing bacteria can often become contaminated with bacteriophages, which causes significant down-time in research and industrial processes. This new research has found that a polymer can prevent these phage infections.  … Read more

NanoCarb at the Nanomed Europe conference

On 19-22 June 2023, NanoCarb was represented at the Nanomed Europe conference which took place in Liverpool, UK. The NanoCarb coordinator Marco Monopoli (RCSI) gave an overview of the scientific achievements of the NanoCarb project. Our ESR Alessia Pancaro (VITO) presented her work on lectin detection assays in a poster. The Nanomed Europe conference was … Read more