Search results for organ-on-a-chip

Nanophysics Nov 24, 2025

Manufacturing the world's tiniest light-emitting diodes

Miniaturization ranks as the driving force behind the semiconductor industry. The tremendous gains in computer performance since the 1950s are largely due to the fact that ever smaller structures can be manufactured on silicon ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 24, 2025

Quantum photonic chip integrates light-emitting molecules with single-mode waveguides

Photonic quantum processors, devices that can process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects and particles of light (photons), have shown promise for numerous applications, ranging from computations and communications ...

Biotechnology Nov 21, 2025

Unlocking the genome's hidden half with new DNA sequencing technology

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind to the genome. Transposons play critical roles in immune response, neurological function and genetic ...

Cell & Microbiology Nov 20, 2025

Light-controlled embryos reveal power of mechanical forces in human development

Only two weeks after fertilization, the first sign of the formation of the three axes of the human body (head/tail, ventral/dorsal, and right/left) begins to appear. At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless ...

Bio & Medicine Nov 5, 2025

Lipid nanoparticles that can deliver mRNA directly into heart muscle cells discovered

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have stalled, largely due to the difficulty of delivering treatments at the cellular level. Now, a UC ...

Biotechnology Oct 25, 2025

Mushrooms show promise as memory chips for future computers

Fungal networks may be a promising alternative to tiny metal devices used in processing and storing digital memories and other computer data, according to a new study.

Nanophysics Oct 10, 2025

Scientists create nanofluidic chip with 'brain-like' memory pathways

Scientists at Monash University have created a tiny fluid-based chip that behaves like neural pathways of the brain, potentially opening the door to a new generation of computers.

General Physics Oct 7, 2025

First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging framework of optical ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 6, 2025

Researchers develop the first miniaturized ultraviolet spectrometer chip

Recently, the iGaN Laboratory led by Professor Haiding Sun at the School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), together with the team of academician Sheng Liu from Wuhan University, has ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 2, 2025

Molecular qubits can communicate at telecom frequencies

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed molecular qubits that bridge the gap between ...

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