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Researchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer

Researchers have found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma opening up the potential for diagnosing the early presence of infectious diseases or cancer during a doctor's office visit. The new test takes about 10 minutes as opposed to two to four hours for current state-of-the-art tests.

Aug 29th, 2016

Fast switching all-solid-state wavelength-dependent bipolar photodetector

Researchers describe the first all solid-state wavelength-dependent bipolar photodetectors with fast response times and tunable switching wavelengths.

Aug 29th, 2016

Making high quality vertical nanowires with full control over their size, density and distribution

Scientists have demonstrated a novel method of making high quality vertical nanowires with full control over their size, density and distribution over a semi-conducting substrate.

Aug 29th, 2016

Important advance made with new approach to 'control' cancer, not eliminate it

Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an emerging concept in cancer treatment - to dramatically slow and control tumors on a long-term, sustained basis, not necessarily aiming for their complete elimination.

Aug 29th, 2016

Electronic circuits printed at 1 micron resolution

Researchers have developed a printing technique for forming electronic circuits and thin-film transistors (TFTs) with line width and line spacing both being 1 micron.

Aug 29th, 2016

Cell-compatible OLEDs for use with patients

Cytocompatibility studies of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been carried out on cell cultures for the first time to test how well OLEDs are tolerated by cells.

Aug 29th, 2016

Electrons at the speed limit

Scientists have investigated how fast electrons can ultimately be controlled with electric fields. Their insights are of importance for the petahertz electronics of the future.

Aug 26th, 2016

Symmetry crucial for building key biomaterial collagen in the lab

Researchers describe what may be the key to growing functional, natural collagen fibers outside of the body: symmetry.

Aug 25th, 2016

A nanoscale wireless communication system via plasmonic antennas

Greater control affords 'in-plane' transmission of waves at or near visible light.

Aug 25th, 2016

Forces of nature: Interview with microscopy innovators Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber

The inventors of one of the most versatile tools in modern science - the atomic force microscope, or AFM - tell their story in an interview published online this week.

Aug 25th, 2016

Physicists discovered new peculiarities of a material with a giant magnetocaloric effect

Scientists showed that the smallest structural change in the iron-rhodium alloys may result in a significant change in its magnetocaloric properties.

Aug 25th, 2016

Designing ultrasound protein tools with molecular engineering

Researchers engineered protein-shelled nanostructures called gas vesicles - which reflect sound waves - to exhibit new properties useful for ultrasound technologies. In the future, these gas vesicles could be administered to a patient to visualize tissues of interest.