Biocompatible nanomaterial that can be controlled with light finds a use in gene delivery
Scientists have demonstrated biocompatible nanostructures for delivering siRNA and efficiently silencing genes.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreScientists have demonstrated biocompatible nanostructures for delivering siRNA and efficiently silencing genes.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreResearchers have succeeded in producing short chains and rings of gold nanoparticles with unprecedented precision. They used a special kind of nanoparticles with a well-defined structure and linked them together with molecular bridges.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreScientists are on the hunt for nanomaterials that could improve engine technology in a big way.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreScientists exploit a famous bit of quantum weirdness to film a molecule's inner life.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreWhen a baseball pitcher uncorks a nasty curveball, the spinning motion of the ball forces air to flow around it at different speeds, causing the ball to 'break' in one direction. The physics behind this kind of deflection also work at smaller scales.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreResearchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified cells that can be activated via brain waves, and swarms of microrobots that facilitate highly precise application of drugs.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreTo help imbibers easily and quickly know when they've had enough, scientists have developed a flexible, wearable patch that can detect a person's blood-alcohol level from his or her sweat.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreResearchers developed a hybrid nanosensor incorporating magnetic resonance and fluorescence. Lab testing of milk showed the detector could sense varying concentrations of a pathogenic strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 in less than an hour.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreScientists have created a new method to help researchers discover how much the virus's size matters. By mutating a single amino acid in a bacterial virus, the team drastically changed the size of its protein coating, or capsid.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreNew multiferroic material is a big step in march toward ultra-low power electronics.
Sep 22nd, 2016
Read moreAn international team of researchers has invented a method to control the formation of defects called 'shear bands' in metals manufacturing processes and discovered microscopic details of how the defects are created.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers put metal-oxides and organic magnets together; applications for electronics in sight.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers have discovered that a newly developed plasmonic fabrication capability and design can improve the performance of biosensors, solar cells and photodetectors.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers have succeeded in linking graphene with another important chemical group, the porphyrins. These new hybrid structures could also be used in the field of molecular electronics, catalysis or even as sensors.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreScientists haver performed characterisation of two large, complex silver nanoclusters of 136 and 374 atoms.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers have devised a new way to electrically contact graphene with liquid metals rather than typical rigid electrodes such as gold and silver.
Sep 21st, 2016
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