Any hunter will tell you that when your quarry goes into hiding, you have to flush it out to get a good shot at it. Now, Stanford researchers have found a way to synthesize agents that can be tailored to flush HIV out into the open where the immune system and antiretroviral therapies can destroy it.

Tagged: aids, chemistry, healthcare, HIV, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Cancer researchers have long faced a similar situation in chemotherapy: how to get the most medication into the cells of a tumor without "spillover" of the medication adversely affecting the healthy cells in a patient's body. Now researchers at Stanford University have addressed that problem using single-walled carbon nanotubes as delivery vehicles.

Tagged: Bio-X, Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program, cancer, chemistry, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

Stanford researchers have gained a new understanding of how energy can be transferred in collisions at the molecular scale. Professor Richard Zare uses a love triangle analogy to explain this phenomenon.

Tagged: atoms, chemistry, Humanities & Sciences