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New nanoparticle drug delivery system improves treatment of atherosclerosis

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers have designed and developed a novel drug delivery method that can vastly improve the efficacy of a drug used to treat atherosclerosis and has the potential to identify and treat other diseases.

Jun 23, 2022

"Self-assembled, interlocked threads: Spinning yarn with no machine needed: Engineers discover spontaneous intertwining of 2D polymer sheets into self-rotating 3D 'dancing' spirals"

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing two-dimensional polymer sheets to rise and rotate in spi...

Jun 23, 2022

Ultra-thin film creates vivid 3D images with large field of view: Glass-free technique could enable visual features that don't require special reading devices or illumination

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed a new ultra-thin film that can create detailed 3D images viewable under normal illumination without any special reading devices. The images appear to float on top of the film and can be clearly viewed from all angles. Th...

Jun 23, 2022

New technology helps reveal inner workings of human genome

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Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center researchers, in collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, have developed a new method to assess on a large scale the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, or how the genome folds....

Jun 23, 2022

"Creating heat-tolerant, stable boron nitride nanotube fibers"

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A Rice University team led by professors Matteo Pasquali and Angel Martí has simplified handling of the highly valuable nanotubes to make them more suitable for large-scale applications, including aerospace, electronics and energy-efficient materi...

Jun 23, 2022

Ultra-thin film creates vivid 3D images with large field of view

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have developed a new ultra-thin film that can create detailed 3D images viewable under normal illumination without any special reading devices. The images appear to float on top of the film and exhibit smooth parallax, which means they...

Jun 23, 2022

Lipid nanoparticles carry gene-editing cancer drugs past tumor defenses

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As they grow, solid tumors surround themselves with a thick, hard-to-penetrate wall of molecular defenses. Getting drugs past that barricade is notoriously difficult. Now, scientists at UT Southwestern have developed nanoparticles that can break d...

Jun 23, 2022

Lipid nanoparticles carry gene-editing cancer drugs past tumor defenses

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

As they grow, solid tumors surround themselves with a thick, hard-to-penetrate wall of molecular defenses. Getting drugs past that barricade is notoriously difficult. Now, scientists have developed nanoparticles that can break down the physical ba...

Jun 23, 2022

Boron nitride nanotubes used to be hard to process. Not anymore

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers create first heat-tolerant, stable fibers from wet-spinning process.

Jun 23, 2022

"In colorful avian world, hummingbirds have the widest breadth of colorful plumage"

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in hummingbirds.

Jun 23, 2022

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