Scientists have developed a new method that utilizes microscopic splinter-like structures for the targeted delivery of biomolecules such as genes straight to patient cells. These magnetically guided nanostructures could enable gene therapies that are safer, faster and more cost-effective.
Mar 14th, 2018
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Using nano-probes to amplify biochemical signals could lead to targeted, noninvasive treatment of cancer.
Mar 14th, 2018
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In a step toward accelerating the production of new gene therapies, scientists report that they have developed remote-controlled, needle-like nanospears capable of piercing membrane walls and delivering DNA into selected cells.
Mar 14th, 2018
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Their unprecedented internal surface areas and easy chemical tunability allow MOFs to 'pull' water vapor and other gases from air. These same features make them promising materials also for selectively removing heavy metals from water.
Mar 14th, 2018
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A world-first graphene-based filter that can remove more than 99% of the natural organic matter in treated drinking water is being scaled up for possible use in conventional plants.
Mar 14th, 2018
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Magnon spintronics employs magnons instead of electrical charges for information processing.
Mar 14th, 2018
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Physicists have found that complex electron-electron interactions change the energy levels at molecule-metal interfaces, affecting the performance of molecular electronic devices.
Mar 14th, 2018
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The COMPHOCAT project has worked on the computational model of titanium dioxide nanoparticles to search for a catalyst which, with visible light, favours the division of water to generate hydrogen.
Mar 13th, 2018
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Flat optical device has applications in augmented and virtual reality, ultra-high resolution microscopy, holography.
Mar 13th, 2018
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Scientists have found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide.
Mar 13th, 2018
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Digital memory and security could be transformed according to new research, which has for the first time showed that antiferromagnets can be easily controlled and read by switching the direction of ordinary electrical currents at super-fast speed.
Mar 13th, 2018
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A 'superacid' much stronger than automobile battery acid has enabled a key advance toward a new generation of LED lighting that?s safer, less expensive and more user friendly.
Mar 13th, 2018
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Researchers have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows them to work together, paving the way for new applications.
Mar 13th, 2018
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) launched four new products this week intended to provide options to companies for controlling possible exposure of their workers to nanomaterials on the job.
Mar 12th, 2018
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New work shows how a microscopic 'railway' system in our cells can optimise its structure to better suit bodies' needs.
Mar 12th, 2018
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Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles to deliver drugs to tumors in mice.
Mar 12th, 2018
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