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PUBLICATION! Congrats to Steph, Alex, Rylie, and Hailey!

Posted by on Jan 30, 2023 in Posts, Student News

Secondary Structure of DNA Aptamer Influences Biomimetic Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023 Congrats to Stephanie Colon, Alexander Paige, Rylie Bolarinho, and Hailey Young and the entire GRAB Lab team for this awesome work. We keep finding interesting ways that DNA aptamers interact with different minerals in...

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Alumni Publications!

Posted by on Jan 12, 2023 in Alumni, Posts

Our research alumni at Emmanuel College are awesome! Congrats to Krista Meserve on these new publications related to her graduate work in analytical chemistry. Great work! Chorioamnionitis-exposure alters serum cytokine trends in premature neonates, G.E. Stepanovich*, C.A. Chapman*, K. Meserve, J.M. Sturza, L.A. Ellsworth, R.C. Bailey, J.R. Bermick,...

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Dr. Gerdon at MRS Conference in Boston!

Posted by on Dec 2, 2022 in Posts

It is great to be in Boston! World-class, amazing researchers come to us every fall for the Materials Research Society conference held at Hynes Convention Center. Dr. Gerdon was able to get away after class on Thursday to hear some great talks and present on “DNA aptamers and self-assembled DNA materials as bioinspired modulators of calcium...

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Hunter Yearsley ’23 – Passionate about chemistry!

Posted by on Nov 6, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Hunter is very excited to be one of the newest members of the GRAB Lab research team! Hunter is working on a project in the area of forensics and is using this research project to fill his internship requirement. His goal is to make solid lipid nanoparticles that can fluoresce when they come into contact with a latent fingerprint. He is very happy to be...

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