Findings could lead to treatment of hepatitis B

07-Jun-2018 - Researchers at the University of Delaware, working with colleagues at Indiana University, have gained new insights into the virus that causes hepatitis B -- a life-threatening and incurable infection that afflicts more than 250 million people worldwide. The discovery reveals previously unknown ...

A sweeter way to make green products

12-Sep-2017 - The shampoo you washed your hair with this morning. The balloons for the party. Refrigerators and sunglasses, medicine and mosquito repellent, guitar strings and fishing lures. These -- and thousands of other products we use every day -- contain chemicals made from petroleum. But researchers at ...

Magic helps unmask how the brain works

03-Aug-2017 - Tricks and illusions, once the domain of magicians, are helping scientists unveil how the brain works. Here's one you can try using a tabletop mirror. Place your left hand on the table in front of the mirror's reflective surface and your right hand behind the mirror, about six inches away, where ...

Team highlights work on tuning block polymers for nanostructured systems

31-Mar-2017 - High-performance materials are enabling major advances in a wide range of applications from energy generation and digital information storage to disease screening and medical devices. Block polymers, which are two or more polymer chains with different properties linked together, show great ...

Study looks at adding rice residue to lower arsenic, improve crop yields

12-Nov-2015 - A new study by University of Delaware researchers considers how adding silica-rich rice residue - such as husks, straw and the ash of those materials - to improve crop yields and decrease arsenic uptake may affect the soils in which rice plants are grown. The study was carried out by Evanise ...

Nano shake-up

UD researchers demonstrate that processing can affect size of nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery

16-Apr-2014 - Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge. Nanotechnology has unlocked new pathways for targeted drug delivery, including the use of nanocarriers, or capsules, that ...

Kelvin Lee winner of Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award

02-Jul-2009 - The Biochemical Engineering Journal and the ECI Biochemical Engineering Conferences have announced that Kelvin H. Lee, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and Director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is the winner of the Biochemical Engineering Journal ...

UD signs commercialization agreement on corn disease trait

13-Feb-2009 - The University of Delaware announced that it has reached a commercial agreement with DuPont regarding their multi-year, corn disease resistance research collaboration. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. DuPont seed business, Pioneer Hi-Bred, now is marketing Pioneer brand hybrid 34F26, ...