Breaking the skin barrier
Drugs are first to topically deliver gene therapy via commercial moisturizers for skin disease treatment.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreDrugs are first to topically deliver gene therapy via commercial moisturizers for skin disease treatment.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreMicrocontainers for medical substances can be produced in different sizes using calcium carbonate microspheres as templates.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreProducing strong, lightweight and complex parts for car manufacturing and the aerospace industry is set to become cheaper and more accurate thanks to a new technique developed by engineers from the University of Exeter. The research team has developed a new method for making three-dimensional aluminium composite parts by mixing a combination of relatively inexpensive powders.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreScientists at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated a novel principle of seeded free electron lasers, Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) on Shanghai Deep UV Free Electron Laser (SDUV-FEL) facility.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreScientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have discovered that tiny vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles can inhibit the growth of barnacles, bacteria, and algae on surfaces in contact with water, such as ship hulls, sea buoys, or offshore platforms.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreThe High-Level Experts Group established by the European Commission identified "micro- and nanoelectronics including semiconductors", presently addressed by the ENIAC JU, as one of six KETs with systemic relevance for the European growth, competitiveness and jobs.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read moreGraphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.
Jul 2nd, 2012
Read morePitt nanoscientists suggest the use of vacuums to overcome the limits of conventional silicon-based semiconductor electronics.
Jul 1st, 2012
Read moreTechnique offers way to study how electron acquires mass.
Jun 30th, 2012
Read moreAn attosecond is a ridiculously brief sliver of time - a scant billionth of a billionth of a second. This may seem too short to have any practical applications, but at the atomic level, where electrons zip and jump about, these vanishingly short timescales are crucial to a deeper understanding of science.
Jun 30th, 2012
Read moreMaterials scientists demonstrate first solid-oxide fuel cell capable of battery-like storage.
Jun 29th, 2012
Read moreA device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves, according to a team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State.
Jun 29th, 2012
Read moreUsing a sensor made of densely packed carbon nanotubes coated with gold nanoparticles, a researcher team headed by James Rusling of the University of Connecticut has developed a low-cost microfluidic device for detecting oral cancer. According to the researchers, the device is readily adaptable to detecting other cancers.
Jun 29th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have created biodegradable, ultra tiny, nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo.
Jun 29th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a computational approach to designing specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form nanoparticle cages that can be used to deliver drugs to tumors and other sites of disease.
Jun 29th, 2012
Read moreAs the field of nanomedicine matures, an emerging point of contention has been what shape nanoparticles deliver their drug or DNA payloads most effectively. A pair of publications from a team led by Paulo Decuzzi of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute's (TMHRI) Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine suggests these microscopic workhorses ought to be disc-shaped, not spherical or rod-shaped, when targeting cancers at or near blood vessels.
Jun 29th, 2012
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