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Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 25, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

How to identify patients most at risk from COVID-19 through nanotechnology

May 21, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise? One Michigan State...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 20, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

Nanobowls Serve up Chemotherapy Drugs to Cancer Cells

May 20, 2020
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Washington, DC — For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes — hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers — to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumour cells. But drugs can sometimes...

‘Hot and Messy’ Entanglement of 15 Trillion Atoms

May 19, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other. Entanglement is at the...

Compact Electronic Nose to Identify Human Lung Diseases

May 18, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Researchers from Russia and Italy have proposed a compact sensor system that can implement the functionality of the electronic nose and developed a reproducible technology for...

2D Sandwich Sees Molecules with Clarity

May 18, 2020
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Houston, TX — A sandwich of molybdenum, sulfur and selenium turns out to be deliciously useful for detecting biomolecules. Tests at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering of a two-dimensional...

Technology Innovation for Neurology

May 14, 2020
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Graz, Austria — In 2015 Francesco Greco, head of the Laboratory of Applied Materials for Printed and Soft electronics (LAMPSe) at the Institute of Solid State Physics at Graz University of Technology,...

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

May 14, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University have shown that nanosized silver cubes can make diagnostic tests that rely on fluorescence easier to read by making them more than 150 times brighter. Combined...

A New, Highly Sensitive Chemical Sensor Uses Protein Nanowires

May 13, 2020
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Amherst, MA — Writing in the journal NanoResearch, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports this week that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the...

Screw Cancer: Microneedle Sticks It to Cancer Tissue

May 7, 2020
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Daegu, South Korea — A drug-loaded microrobotic needle effectively targets and remains attached to cancerous tissue in lab experiments without needing continuous application of a magnetic field, allowing...

Gas Nanomedicine: An Emerging Cutting-Edge Field

May 6, 2020
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Beijing, China — Cancer is deadly, but available cancer treatment methods are quite limited. The use of therapeutic gas molecules such as H2, NO, CO and H2S for cancer treatment is promising owing...

Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair

May 4, 2020
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Champaign, IL — In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells. In...

Green Method could Enable Hospitals to Produce Hydrogen Peroxide in House

May 4, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team of researchers has developed a portable, more environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen peroxide. It could enable hospitals to make their own supply of the disinfectant...

Ultra-Precision Nano-Sensor could Detect Iron Disorders

April 30, 2020
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Sydney, Australia — Chronic iron imbalances – having either too little or too much iron in the blood – can result in medical conditions ranging from anaemia and haemochromatosis through...

Researchers Measure Cancer Cell Mechanics in Living Animals Using Nanoparticles

April 30, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from...

Sensor Detects Biomarker of Early-Stage Multiple Sclerosis

April 27, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Sorocaba (state of São Paulo, Brazil) have developed a technique to diagnose early-stage multiple sclerosis, a disease...

Research Sheds Light on How Silver Ions Kill Bacteria

April 14, 2020
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Fayetteville, AR — The antimicrobial properties of silver have been known for centuries. While it is still a mystery as to exactly how silver kills bacteria, University of Arkansas researchers have...

Personalized Microrobots Swim Through Biological Barriers, Deliver Drugs to Cells

April 8, 2020
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Washington, DC — Tiny biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumours or provide other cargo-carrying functions. The natural environmental sensing tendencies...

Fatty Acid in Triglycerides Proves Effective Platform for Biological Drug Delivery

April 2, 2020
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Houston, TX — We’ve all been warned about the dangers of triglycerides, the fat stored in your blood. But what if that unhealthy fat could effectively transport oral medication to your body and...

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