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Nanocatalysts that Remotely Control Chemical Reactions Inside Living Cells

August 11, 2020
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Pohang, South Korea — The enzymes responsible for catalytic reactions in our body’s biological reactions are difficult to use for diagnosis or treatment as they react only to certain molecules...

Adding Another Dimension to Cell Culture Model for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

August 11, 2020
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Okayama, Japan — Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare–albeit deadly–disease that affects the arteries of the lung. In PAH, abnormal growth of cells of the vascular media–or...

Researchers Propose Strategy to Evaluate Tumour Photothermal Therapy in Real-Time

August 6, 2020
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Hefei, China — Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising alternative method for cancer treatment due to advantages of non-invasiveness, precise temporal and spatial control, strong specificity and...

Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers

July 23, 2020
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Durham, NC — Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the...

A Plot Twist in Pharmaceuticals: Single Nanoparticles Could Pave the Way for Medicines on Demand

July 22, 2020
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Bath, UK — For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterized in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced...

New Nano Drug Candidate Kills Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells

July 21, 2020
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Fayetteville, AR — Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new nano drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells. Triple negative breast cancer is one of the...

Mechanical Way to Stimulate Neurons

July 21, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body’s neural cells can also respond to mechanical effects, such as pressure or vibration. But these...

Designing DNA from Scratch: Engineering the Functions of Micrometer-Sized DNA Droplets

July 16, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — In living organisms, DNA is the storage unit of all genetic information. It is with this information that proteins are encoded, which then enable biological systems to function as needed...

Scientists Use Nanoparticle-Delivered Gene Therapy to Inhibit Blinding Eye Disease in Rodents

July 9, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — In experiments in rats and mice, two Johns Hopkins scientists — an engineer and an ophthalmologist — report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for...

Real-Time Monitoring of Proteins in Nuclear Pore Complex

July 7, 2020
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Kanazawa, Japan — In human cells, the nucleus is enclosed by a structure called the nuclear pore complex (NPC). It acts as a ‘gatekeeper’ controlling the transport of molecules between...

Nanotechnology Applied to Medicine: The First Liquid Retina Prosthesis

July 3, 2020
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Genoa, Italy — Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract...

Charcoal a weapon to fight superoxide-induced disease, injury

July 2, 2020
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Houston, TX — Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal could have the power to curtail damaging levels of superoxides, radical oxygen ions that are toxic at high concentrations. The nanozymes...

New Materials of Perovskite Challenge the Chemical Intuition

July 1, 2020
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Beijing, China — High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple of decades with advances in previously difficult experimental techniques and from technologies such as diamond anvils,...

Research Tackles Long-Standing Mysteries about Membrane Protein Structure

June 30, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Ion channels and membrane transporters are in the business of moving ions and small molecules across cellular membranes. They are essential for metabolic and cellular homeostasis, and...

Developing New Techniques to Improve Atomic Force Microscopy

June 29, 2020
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Urbana, IL — Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a new method to improve the detection ability of nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy....

Process for ‘Two-Faced’ Nanomaterials may Aid Energy, Information Tech

June 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided...

Cellulose for Manufacturing Advanced Materials

June 26, 2020
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Leioa, Spain — Erlantz Lizundia-Fernandez, who lectures in the UPV/EHU’s Department of Graphic Design and Engineering Projects, works with renewable polymers. “We are seeking to drive forward...

Innovative Catalyst with Pt, Re and SnO2 Nanoparticles as Anode Material in Ethanol Fuel Cells

June 25, 2020
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Kraków, Poland — Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences designed and synthesized a functional ternary...

Researchers Create a Photographic Film of a Molecular Switch

June 19, 2020
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Münster, Germany — Molecular switches – they are the molecular counterparts of electrical switches and play an important role in many processes in nature. Such molecules can reversibly interconvert...

New Research Shows Tiny, Decoy ‘Sponges’ Attract Coronavirus Away From Lung Cells

June 19, 2020
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Boston, MA — Imagine if scientists could stop the coronavirus infection in its tracks simply by diverting its attention away from living lung cells? A new therapeutic countermeasure, announced in a...

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