With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact ...

Cross-linking polymers simply means adding bonds across polymer strands, explains Jeremy E. Wulff, a chemistry professor at the University of Victoria who led the work. Silicone bakeware, certain ...

MIT researchers add mechanophores to polymers, boosting impact resistance and opening paths to tougher tires and electronics ...

Atlanta—ACS Spring 2026, a meeting of the American Chemical Society, began with a flurry of talks early Sunday morning. During a session hosted by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology ...

Patients who underwent corneal cross-linking for keratoconus had a temporary but statistically significant increase in IOP in ...

An epithelium-off corneal cross-linking treatment has been approved in the U.S. for nearly a decade.During that time, we have ...

As the executor of life activities, proteins exert their specific biological functions through interactions such as forming protein complexes. The localization effects, crowding effects, and organelle ...

Chemical cross-linking (XL) is widely used to investigate protein–protein interactions (PPIs), including transient or low abundance subcomplexes in mass spectrometry workflows. However, identifying ...

Corneal cross-linking is an in-office procedure that works to strengthen and stabilize the cornea in eyes that have weakness from keratoconus or ectasia. At Baylor Medicine, our cornea specialists are ...

Pulmonary embolism is a condition caused by a blood clot in the lungs that cuts blood flow to major blood vessels. The primary function of blood clots is to stem blood loss from ruptured blood vessels ...