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**Playing tug-of-war with platelets**

**With new tools, researchers hope to improve diagnosis of platelet dysfunction by measuring their forces.**

**15 Good Minutes: Khalid Salaita, PhD**

**The Salaita lab has been at** **Emory University** **for 14 years. Hear** **Khalid Salaita, PhD, talk about his career as a chemist, how he balances research and commercialization, and what advice he'd give to his younger self.**

**NIH funds Emory center to advance cellular mechanics**

**“We are catalyzing the process of spreading our technology so that studying biomechanics becomes common and routine in biology”**

**Merck Prize boosts work on air sensor for pandemic pathogens**

**Chemist Khalid Salaita leads Emory students and faculty in a visionary project**

**'Firefly' imaging method zooms in on 'the forces within us'**

**Emory chemists make cellular forces visible at the molecular scale**

Khalid Salita, a biochemistry professor in the Chemistry Department, talks about his research on cell surface forces and where he got the idea to study them. Produced and Directed by John S. Mancini Animations by Pravin Muthu Music Composed and Performed by Bryant Chica http://chemistry.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/salaita-khalid.html

**New tool to analyze blood platelets holds major medical potential**

**A novel technique to test platelet function within a person’s blood sample is faster, easier and more precise than methods currently in use, an experimental study shows**

Physical chemists have devised a rolling DNA-based motor that's 1,000 times faster than any other synthetic DNA motor, giving it potential for real-world applications, such as disease diagnostics. Nature Nanotechnology is publishing the finding.

**Chameleon-inspired 'smart skin' materials that change color on demand**

**Hydrogels that dissipate mechanical strain do the trick!**

Platelets are cells in the blood whose job is to stop bleeding by sticking together to form clots and plug up a wound. Now, for the first time, scientists have measured and mapped the key molecular forces on platelets that trigger this process.

A new method for visualizing the mechanical forces on the surface of a cell, developed by Emory University chemists, provides the first detailed view of those forces, as they occur in real-time. For more info, visit eScienceCommons: emory.edu/esciencecommons.

Using a technique known as DNA origami, scientists at Emory University and Georgia Tech have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewan...