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Surprising Ionic and Flow Behaviours with Functionalized Nanochannels

April 20, 2021
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College Park, MD — Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny,...

Superbug Killer: New Nanotech Destroys Bacteria and Fungal Cells

April 15, 2021
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Melbourne, Australia — Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that could be used on wound dressings and implants to prevent and treat potentially deadly bacterial and fungal infections. The...

Optically Active Defects Improve Carbon Nanotubes

April 12, 2021
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Heidelberg, Germany — The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural “imperfections” or defects. The...

Designing Selective Membranes for Batteries Using a Drug Discovery Toolbox

April 9, 2021
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Washington, DC — Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass through while blocking others are key enablers for energy technologies from batteries and fuel cells to resource refinement and...

Origins of Life could have Started with DNA-Like XNAs

April 8, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor to the origins of life. The findings, published in the journal Nature...

Method Offers Inexpensive Imaging at the Scale of Virus Particles

March 30, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers — which should enable them...

Redox Imaging Allows Measurement of Drug Responses in Lab-Grown Cancer Samples

March 23, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Organoids are tiny three-dimensional cellular assemblies that are grown in a laboratory from tissue-specific cells. They are particularly interesting to biologists because of their ability...

Learning to Help the Adaptive Immune System

March 11, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo demonstrated how the adaptive immune system uses a method similar to reinforcement learning to control...

Graphene Nanoparticles and Their Influence on Neurons

March 11, 2021
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Trieste, Italy — Effective, specific, with a reversible and non-harmful action: the identikit of the perfect biomaterial seems to correspond to graphene flakes, the subject of a new study carried out...

‘Wearable Microgrid’ Uses the Human Body to Sustainably Power Small Gadgets

March 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a “wearable microgrid” that harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics....

Nanoenzymes Designed with a Unique Combination of Structure and Functions

March 9, 2021
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Bellaterra, Spain — Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks...

Biosensor for Measuring Extracellular Hydrogen Peroxide Concentrations

March 9, 2021
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Kanazawa, Japan — Several processes in the human body are regulated by biochemical reactions involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Although it can act as a ‘secondary messenger’, relaying...

New Microcomb could Help Discover Exoplanets and Detect Diseases

March 5, 2021
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Göteborg, Sweden — A microcomb is a photonic device capable of generating a myriad of optical frequencies – colours – on a tiny cavity known as microresonator. These colours are uniformly...

Colour Blindness-Correcting Contact Lenses

March 4, 2021
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — Imagine seeing the world in muted shades — gray sky, gray grass. Some people with colour blindness see everything this way, though most can’t see specific...

Coronavirus-Like Particles could Ensure Reliability of Simpler, Faster COVID-19 Tests

March 3, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Rapid COVID-19 tests are on the rise to deliver results faster to more people, and scientists need an easy, foolproof way to know that these tests work correctly and the results can...

Polymer Film Protects from Electromagnetic Radiation, Signal Interference

February 23, 2021
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Riverside, CA — As electronic devices saturate all corners of public and personal life, engineers are scrambling to find lightweight, mechanically stable, flexible, and easily manufactured materials...

Pore-Like Proteins Designed from Scratch

February 19, 2021
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Seattle, WA — In a milestone for biomolecular design, a team of scientists has succeeded in creating new proteins that adopt one of the most complex folds known to molecular biology. These designer...

More Sustainable Recycling of Plastics

February 18, 2021
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Konstanz, Germany — The new method works without extremely high temperatures, is therefore more energy-efficient and has a significantly higher recovery rate (approx. 96 per cent of the starting material)...

New Skin Patch Brings Us Closer to Wearable, All-in-One Health Monitor

February 16, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while...

Detecting Multiple Sepsis Biomarkers from Whole Blood – Made Fast, Accurate, and Cheap

February 15, 2021
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Boston, MA — Many life-threatening medical conditions, such as sepsis, which is triggered by blood-borne pathogens, cannot be detected accurately and quickly enough to initiate the right course of...

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