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Ultrasound-based approach to delivering potent drugs into cancer cells shows promise in benchtop experiments
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a technique that uses microbubbles and ultrasound to help relatively large cancer drugs enter tumor cells and cause them to self-destruct. Dubbed "Sonoporation-assisted Precise ...
Bio & Medicine
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Quantum handshake: How orbital overlap dictates molecular conductance
By placing single-atom-thick adlayers of p-block metals on commonly employed gold electrodes (d-block), a research team at National Taiwan University has successfully quantified the "interfacial hopping integral" between ...
Nanophysics
Mar 13, 2026
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Allowing atoms to come and go can open the door to better materials modeling
Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known saying in materials science: ...
Nanophysics
Mar 12, 2026
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Diatom-based microrobots show promise for targeted photodynamic therapy of glioblastoma
Researchers in China have developed magnetically controlled microrobots made from diatoms for the treatment of glioblastoma using photodynamic therapy. These microrobots exhibit excellent magnetic responsiveness and programmable ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 12, 2026
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Flash heating upcycles waste glass into SiC nanowires in seconds
Engineering silicon carbide (SiC) with tailored morphologies for electronics and structural reinforcement materials has always been a costly and time-consuming affair, but scientists can now do it in a flash. A new study ...
Compact vacuum ultraviolet laser may improve nanotechnology and power nuclear clocks
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The researchers say the device could ...
Nanophysics
Mar 11, 2026
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DNA origami vaccine rivals mRNA shots while being easier to store and manufacture
The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical trial stages, the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was administered on 8 December 2020 and mathematical models ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2026
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Simple 'cocktail' of amino acids dramatically boosts power of mRNA therapies and CRISPR gene editing
Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, best known as the delivery vehicle for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines received by billions of people, are now at the center of a much larger medical revolution. Researchers are racing to use them ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2026
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DNA barcoding reveals which gene-therapy nanoparticles reach targets in vivo
Drug delivery researchers have vastly improved the potential of genetic therapies by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need to be within cells. Findings of the study ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2026
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Study finds nanocube cation exchange can begin on one face, not six
In a paper published today in Nature Synthesis, a team from the lab of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Chemistry Department Prof. Paul Alivisatos explores the role of cation ...
Nanophysics
Mar 11, 2026
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Heavy water expands energy potential of carbon nanotube yarns
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have developed a new electrolyte system that significantly boosts the energy-harvesting performance of twistrons, which are carbon nanotube yarns that generate electricity ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 11, 2026
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Trouble swallowing? A nanogel tweak may keep therapeutic stem cells alive longer
Swallowing is a fundamental human function that supports nutrition and communication. Damage to swallowing muscles can reduce quality of life and even lead to aspiration pneumonia or malnutrition. Many patients suffer from ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2026
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Biodegradable nanoparticles can seek and destroy diseased immune cells
Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout the body. The study, ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2026
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3D imaging reveals messy-looking supraparticles can be nearly perfect crystals inside
Researchers at Utrecht University have quantitatively mapped the three-dimensional structure of photonic supraparticles for the first time. Supraparticles are microscopic spheres composed of thousands of smaller colloidal ...
Nanophysics
Mar 10, 2026
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Researchers track mineral growth on bioorganic coatings in real time at nanoscale
Materials that encourage mineralization, mimicking the process in the human body, are becoming increasingly important in medicine and technology. This process, which occurs at the interface between inorganic materials and ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 10, 2026
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2D topological Kondo insulator observed in a moiré superlattice
When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated with the intrinsic angular momentum of localized electrons, this can give rise to the so-called ...
Robotic microfluidic platform brings AI to lipid nanoparticle design
AI has designed candidate drugs for antibiotic-resistant infections and genetic diseases. But efforts to incorporate AI into the design of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the revolutionary delivery vehicles behind mRNA therapies ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 9, 2026
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Why nanotechnology breakthroughs often stagnate before reaching the market
New research suggests that the most formidable barrier to commercializing nanotechnology is not the science itself, but rather the way organizations manage the innovation process. While nanotechnology is heralded as one of ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 9, 2026
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Engineered magnetic films follow graphene's equations for massless electron waves
The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but Illinois Grainger engineers ...
Nanophysics
Mar 8, 2026
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Toward practical laser-driven light sails using photonic crystals
Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored light sails as an alternative. ...
Nanophysics
Mar 5, 2026
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