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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Bengt Nordén is affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific emphasis on Molecular Biology. The scientist's work also extends into related subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, and Neurology.

The areas of study within Nordén's research include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Protein Structure and Dynamics, DNA Repair Mechanisms, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Biofield Effects and Biophysics, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Frequent publication venues where Nordén has contributed include:

  • QRB Discovery
  • Molecular Frontiers Journal
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Kosmos
  • Nature Communications

Collaborations have been established with researchers such as Masayuki Takahashi, Sandra Rocha, Tom Brown, Tamás Beke-Somfai, and Hui Hui Zhu, indicating a pattern of ongoing scholarly interaction.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Bengt Nordén are:

  • Orientation of α-Synuclein at Negatively Charged Lipid Vesicles: Linear Dichroism Reveals Time-Dependent Changes in Helix Binding Mode, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Which are the 'Hilbert Problems' of Biophysics?, 2021, QRB Discovery
  • Large-scale photonic network with squeezed vacuum states for molecular vibronic spectroscopy, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Nobel Prize 2022 to Sharpless, Meldal, Bertozzi Click Chemistry - molecular lego, 2022, Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics
  • EDITORIAL: Hydration for Clean Air Today, 2021, Molecular Frontiers Journal

Bengt Nordén has been recognized with awards including being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2009 and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2005.

Best Publications

  • PNA hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson–Crick hydrogen-bonding rules

    Michael Egholm;Ole Buchardt;Leif Christensen;Carsten Behrens

  • Circular Dichroism and Linear Dichroism

    Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger

  • DNA-BINDING OF DELTA- RU(PHEN)2DPPZ 2+ AND LAMBDA- RU(PHEN)2DPPZ 2+

    Catharina Hiort;Per Lincoln;Bengt Norden

  • DNA-like double helix formed by peptide nucleic acid

    Pernilla Wittung;Peter E. Nielsen;Ole Buchardt;Michael Egholm

  • Interaction of Delta- and Lambda-[Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ with DNA: A Calorimetric and Equilibrium Binding Study

    Ihtshamul Haq;Per Lincoln;Dongchul Suh;Bengt Norden

  • Peptide nucleic acid (PNA): its medical and biotechnical applications and promise for the future

    Arghya Ray;Bengt Nordén

  • Kinetics for Hybridization of Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) with DNA and RNA Studied with the BIAcore Technique

    Kristine Kilså Jensen;Henrik Ørum;Peter E. Nielsen;Bengt Nordén

  • Structure of methylene blue-DNA complexes studied by linear and circular dichroism spectroscopy.

    Bengt Nordén;Folke Tjerneld

  • Linear dichroism spectroscopy of nucleic acids.

    Bengt Norden;Mikael Kubista;Tomas Kurucsev

  • Ionic Effects on the Stability and Conformation of Peptide Nucleic Acid Complexes

    Sebastian Tomac;Munna Sarkar;Tommi Ratilainen;Pernilla Wittung

  • Uptake of analogs of penetratin, Tat(48-60) and oligoarginine in live cells

    Per E.G Thorén;Daniel Persson;Petter Isakson;Mattias Goksör

  • Applications of linear Dichroism Spectroscopy

    Bengt Nordén

  • Inverse melting transition and evidence of three-dimensional cubatic structure in a block-copolymer micellar system.

    Kell Mortensen;Wyn Brown;Bengt Nordén

  • Short-Circuiting the Molecular Wire: Cooperative Binding of Δ-[Ru(phen)2dppz]2+ and Δ-[Rh(phi)2bipy]3+ to DNA

    Per Lincoln;Eimer Tuite;Bengt Nordén

  • Characterization of interaction between DNA and 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole by optical spectroscopy

    Mikael Kubista;Björn Åkerman;Bengt Nordén

  • The antennapedia peptide penetratin translocates across lipid bilayers - the first direct observation.

    Per E.G. Thorén;Daniel Persson;Mattias Karlsson;Bengt Nordén

  • Binding of delta- and lambda-[Ru(phen)3]2+ to [d(CGCGATCGCG)]2 studied by NMR.

    M. Eriksson;M. Leijon;Catharina Hiort;Bengt Nordén

  • DNA Binding Geometries of Ruthenium(II) Complexes with 1,10-Phenanthroline and 2,2‘-Bipyridine Ligands Studied with Linear Dichroism Spectroscopy. Borderline Cases of Intercalation

    Per Lincoln;Bengt Nordén

  • Linear Dichroism and Circular Dichroism: A Textbook on Polarized-Light Spectroscopy

    Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger;Tim Dafforn

  • Analysing DNA complexes by circular and linear dichroism

    Bengt Nordén;Tomas Kurucsev

  • Photophysical evidence that Delta- and Lambda-[Ru(phen) 2 (dppz)] 2+ intercalate DNA from the minor groove

    Eimer Tuite;Per Lincoln;Bengt Nordén

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Lincoln
Per Lincoln Chalmers University of Technology
Peter E. Nielsen
Peter E. Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Mikael Kubista
Mikael Kubista Czech Academy of Sciences
Bo Albinsson
Bo Albinsson Chalmers University of Technology
Tom Brown
Tom Brown University of Oxford
Astrid Gräslund
Astrid Gräslund Stockholm University
Ole Buchardt
Ole Buchardt University of Copenhagen
Alison Rodger
Alison Rodger Macquarie University
Anders Holmen
Anders Holmen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Kell Mortensen
Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen

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