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Bio & Medicine 5 hours ago

Researchers develop a nanoparticle that can penetrate the blood-brain barrier

Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a nanoparticle that can penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Their goal is to kill primary breast cancer ...

Environment 8 hours ago

'Everywhere we looked, we found evidence': Microplastics expert on 20 years of pollution research

Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology Ph.D. student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, ...

Environment 8 hours ago

A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows

An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a target to cut the weight ...

Nanomaterials 4 hours ago

New high-throughput device to unlock the potential of advanced materials

A Birmingham researcher has developed a new high-throughput device that produces libraries of nanomaterials using sustainable mechanochemical approaches.

Nanophysics 4 hours ago

Ultrathin samples with surface phonon polariton enhance photoinduced dipole force

A new study has been led by Prof. Xing-Hua Xia (State Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University). While analyzing the infrared photoinduced force response ...