How can damaged cardiac tissue following a heart attack best be treated with replacement muscle cells? A research team is now presenting an innovative method on mice: Muscle replacement cells, which are to take over the function of the damaged tissue, are loaded with magnetic nanoparticles.
Dec 1st, 2017
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New method shows how smallest damage at the surface of semiconductor crystals develops into large defects.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Scientists have designed a three-dimensional material that converts linear compression forces into a rotation movement.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Nature is quantum mechanical, and researchers are ready to study it with a nine-qubit array and the problem of many-body localization.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Discovery could lead to revolutionary handheld disease diagnostic system.
Dec 1st, 2017
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These stripes of electron spin and charge are exciting because of their possible link to a phenomenon that could transform society by making electrical transmission nearly 100 percent efficient.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Electric fields produced by structural mismatches between two materials could be harnessed to manage data in spintronic devices.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Scientists use fluorescent carbon nanotube probes to achieve first in vivo success.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Simple model used to compute elasticity of newly synthesized glassy diamond.
Nov 30th, 2017
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At the first hint of DNA damage, a protein known as an ATR kinase activates the cell's built-in repair system. Scientists have now imaged this protein at unprecedented resolution, and are beginning to understand its response to DNA damage.
Nov 30th, 2017
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By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Researcher uses supercomputers to explore optical properties of plasmonic nanovesicles for drug delivery and investigations of molecules in the brain.
Nov 30th, 2017
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By using bacterial flagella as a template for silica, researchers have demonstrated an easier way to make propulsion systems for nanoscale swimming robots.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Researchers have developed a novel system that enables aggregates composed of magnetised particles to roll along a channel in a combined acoustic and magnetic field.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Metal-organic frameworks with chains of iron centers adsorb and release carbon monoxide with very little energy input.
Nov 30th, 2017
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An entirely human-made architecture produces hydrogen fuel using light, shows promise for transmitting energy in numerous applications.
Nov 30th, 2017
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