The Cook Lab

Tag: health

  • Discovering Surprisingly-Strong Hydrogels From Everyday Ingredients

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    A few years ago we had an amazing postdoc at UH (Bin Zhang, now at Brunel) working on a commercial project. One of the challenges we needed to address for the client was how to make super-strong hydrogels in a setting without normal laboratory facilities like fume cupboards. Hydrogels are very useful. They’re jelly-like materials…

  • Recombinant Antibody Database Launches

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    One of our group members, Niamh Haslett, has recently seen her PhD have an impact outside of our usual research activities, through her time working with an Animal Free Research UK (AFRUK) initiative to create a database of recombinant antibodies: https://antibodies.humanspecificresearch.org/ Why we think this is interesting: Antibodies are proteins which living things produce to…