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"Chemokine-DNA nanoparticles can induce chronic, dysfunctional immune responses"

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Small proteins, called chemokines, that direct immune cells toward sites of infection can also form DNA-bound nanoparticles that can induce chronic, dysfunctional immune responses, according to a new study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Jul 15, 2022

Opening New Doors: First Synthetic Mechanosensitive Potassium Channel

Tokyo Institute of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Intrigued by the properties of ion channel proteins commonly observed in cells, Tokyo Tech researchers have developed the first synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel using a newly developed aromatic fluorinated amphiphilic cyclophane. Disp...

Jul 15, 2022

Study reveals new mode of triggering immune responses

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Small proteins, called chemokines, that direct immune cells toward sites of infection can also form DNA-bound nanoparticles that can induce chronic, dysfunctional immune responses, according to a new study. The surprising discovery of this new act...

Jul 15, 2022

"Towards stable, sustained Raman imaging of large samples at the nanoscale: Researchers successfully performed prolonged nanoscale optical imaging of micrometer-scale tungsten disulfide samples without signal degradation"

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Optical nano-imaging techniques find immense applications in nanotechnology for visualizing nanoscale defects in samples. However, it is challenging to image large micron-sized samples at nanoscale resolution owing to signal distortions resulting ...

Jul 15, 2022

Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid microrobots. First...

Jul 15, 2022

"Toward sustained, stable Raman imaging of large samples at the nanoscale"

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique re...

Jul 15, 2022

A new and easy-to-use web server to identify genome edited cells

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists from the IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf developed and validated a computational webserver that allows scientists to genotype mutations using nanopore sequencing. The results of this stu...

Jul 15, 2022

A novel graphene based NiSe2 nanocrystalline array for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists found the ultrafine uniform dispersion of NiSe2 nanocrystallines in the reduced graphite oxide as substrate has an additional synergistic effect on promoting the conductivity and stability.

Jul 15, 2022

New catalysts make efficient use of precious metals

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoscientists from Utrecht University have devised a new and promising way to make catalysts in which the amount of precious metals needed is reduced by a factor of 10. Those precious metals are scarce, but essential in many existing and future s...

Jul 15, 2022

Starfish embryos swim in formation like a “living crystal”

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Their swirling, clustering behavior might someday inform the design of self-assembling robotic swarms. In its earliest stages, long

Jul 15, 2022

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