This week in science

Happy Wednesday morning! Thanks for joining in for another week.

COVID finally got me after 4 years, so I’m keeping it nice and short this week with just links and limited descriptions. Anyways, here’s 5 articles I found that you might enjoy.

1. “The perfect pesticide? Insecticides made of RNA could offer a safer and more targeted weapon against crop pests”

   • Targetted insecticides using RNA technology.

     • https://www.science.org/content/article/perfect-pesticide-rna-kills-crop-destroying-beetles-unprecedented-accuracy

2. Real-time immunosuppressant monitoring using fluorescence.

   • It’s important to monitor immunosuppressant dosing after receiving an organ transplant, but it’s hard to measure levels real time. Here’s a new way of doing so using a fluorescence-based approach.

   • https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00665

3. Kirigami based solar-evaportators for desalination.

   • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado1019 

4. Both sleeping and being awake are necessary for remodeling synaptic connections.

   • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01559-7

5. “4D” microelectronics towards intelligent biomedical implants.

   • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202313327

Hope you enjoy!

See you next week for more science,

Neil

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