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Biotechnology Dec 12, 2023

Could the 'central dogma' of biology be misleading bioengineers?

Today, medicines based on antibodies—proteins that fight infection and disease—are prescribed for everything from cancer to COVID-19 to high cholesterol. The antibody drugs are supplied by genetically-engineered cells ...

Nanophysics Dec 4, 2023

Optical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by circumventing the diffraction limit

Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research ...

Bio & Medicine Nov 27, 2023

The 'jigglings and wigglings of atoms' reveal key aspects of COVID-19 virulence evolution

Richard Feynman famously stated, "Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms." This week, Nature Nanotechnology features a study that sheds new light on the evolution ...

Environment Nov 9, 2023

Zooplankton in ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of plastics, finds study

A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew ...

Nanomaterials Nov 9, 2023

Liquid metals shake up century-old chemical engineering processes

Liquid metals could be the long-awaited solution to "greening" the chemical industry, according to researchers who tested a new technique they hope can replace energy-intensive chemical engineering processes harking back ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 30, 2023

'Plug and play' nanoparticles could make it easier to tackle various biological targets

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed modular nanoparticles that can be easily customized to target different biological entities such as tumors, viruses or toxins. The surface of the nanoparticles ...

Nanophysics Oct 30, 2023

Physicists turn pencil lead into metaphorical 'gold'

MIT physicists and colleagues have metaphorically turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by isolating five ultrathin flakes stacked in a specific order. The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit three important ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 27, 2023

DNA origami nanoturbine sets new horizon for nanomotors

A collaborative team of researchers led by Prof. Cees Dekker at Delft University of Technology, in partnership with international colleagues, have introduced a pioneering breakthrough in the world of nanomotors—the DNA ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 26, 2023

New nanoparticles found to be effective for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

A team of scientists has developed a new solution for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The work has been published in Nature Nanotechnology.

Bio & Medicine Oct 23, 2023

Researchers propose new strategy to improve efficiency for nanotherapeutic delivery in tumors

A team led by Prof. Wang Yucai and Associate Prof. Jiang Wei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed the mechanism of the tumor vascular basement membranes ...

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