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Highly Selective Membranes

October 22, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Membranes with microscopic pores are useful for water filtration. The effect of pore size on water filtration is well-understood, as is the role of ions, charged atoms, that interact...

Nanodevices Show How Living Cells Change with Time, by Tracking from Inside

October 22, 2020
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Bath, UK — For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interior of mammalian cells, giving an unprecedented peek into the processes that govern the beginning...

Controlling the Speed of Enzyme Motors Brings Biomedical Applications of Nanorobots Closer

October 15, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — A study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Universidad Complutense (UCM), Universidad de Girona (UdG), and the Institute for Bioengineering...

New Virtual Reality Software Allows Scientists to ‘Walk’ Inside Cells

October 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new...

Surface Waves can Help Nanostructured Devices Keep Their Cool

October 13, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices is causing cooling of the device structures to become increasingly challenging. Conventional...

Bacterial Cellulose Degradation System could Give Boost to Biofuels Production

October 12, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose, the tough stuff that makes up plant cell walls, faster and more productively has long been a goal of industrial researchers. When plants...

New Drug Carrier Systems

October 12, 2020
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Newark, DE — University of Delaware Professor Kristi Kiick is leading collaborative research to create new drug delivery systems with the potential to improve treatment for diseases that affect connective...

Inside Mitochondria and Their Fascinating Genome

September 29, 2020
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Lausanne, Switzerland — Mitochondria are present in all eukaryotic cells: in our cells, in mammalian cells, in the cells of plants and even of fungi. Mitochondria produce energy for cells to function...

Scientists Get Soft on 3D Printing

September 24, 2020
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Gaithersburg, MD — Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in a new paper, it has...

New Smart Drug Delivery System may Help Treatment for Neurological Disorders

September 21, 2020
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New Brunswick, NJ — A Rutgers-led team has created a smart drug delivery system that reduces inflammation in damaged nervous tissues and may help treat spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders. The...

Oxygen-Releasing Bioink for 3D Bioprinting

September 10, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Engineering new tissues can be used to alleviate shortages of organs in transplantation, as well as to develop physiological models for drug discovery applications. One of the emerging...

Team’s Flexible Micro LEDs may Reshape Future of Wearable Technology

September 1, 2020
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Richardson, TX — University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their international colleagues have developed a method to create micro LEDs that can be folded, twisted, cut and stuck to different surfaces. The...

Preventing Infection, Facilitating Healing: New Biomaterials from Spider Silk

September 1, 2020
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Bayreuth, Germany — New biomaterials developed at the University of Bayreuth eliminate risk of infection and facilitate healing processes. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel has succeeded...

New ‘Molecular Computers’ Find the Right Cells

August 24, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Scientists have demonstrated a new way to precisely target cells by distinguishing them from neighbouring cells that look quite similar. Even cells that become cancerous may differ...

Aerogel – the Micro Structural Material of the Future

August 24, 2020
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Dübendorf, Switzerland — Behind the simple headline “Additive manufacturing of silica aerogels” – the article was published on July 20th in the renowned scientific journal Nature –...

Porous Liquids Allow for Efficient Gas Separation

August 13, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Jointly with cooperation partners, a researcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed “porous liquids”: Nanoparticles, that are able to separate...

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...

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