Today, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Spear Bio, Inc.announced that the Institute's DNA nanotechnology-driven ultrasensitive SPEAR protein-detection technology has been licensed to the newly...
Aug 23, 2022
The success of COVID-19 vaccines is a great example of gene medicine's tremendous potential to prevent viral infections. One reason for the vaccines' success is their use of lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, to carry delicate messenger RNA t...
Aug 23, 2022
Over the past few decades, human-machine interface (HMI) technologies, especially driven by the demands of wearables, have progressed rapidly—into smaller, lighter, more efficient, more robust forms. Today, we also have various self-powered HMIs, ...
Aug 23, 2022
Supported metal nanoparticle catalysts play an important role in a series of industrially important reactions for fuel production, fine chemical synthesis, pollutant removal, and solar harvesting. However, the metal NPs tend to sinter and/or leach...
Aug 23, 2022
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that leads to insidious deterioration of brain functions. Current treatments for AD that focus on inhibition of amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation failed to show effectiveness in peop...
Aug 23, 2022
Cutting intricate patterns as small as several billionths of a meter deep and wide, the focused ion beam (FIB) is an essential tool for deconstructing and imaging tiny industrial parts to ensure they were fabricated correctly. When a beam of ions,...
Aug 23, 2022
Large pieces of plastic can break down into nanosized particles that often find their way into the soil and water. But they also float in the air, where their presence is less understood. As a step toward better understanding airborne nanoplastics...
Aug 23, 2022
Structurally solid and electrically conducting fabrics, especially those with large specific capacitances, have the potential to be used as electrodes in power storage systems such as fiber-shaped supercapacitors (FSCs).
Aug 23, 2022
The creation of cost-effective electrocatalytic nanostructures for effective oxygen reducing reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) via functional and morphology control is a significant obstacle for prospective power storage applicati...
Aug 23, 2022
Although three-dimensional (3D) nanoframe structures are desirable for optical sensing, it is challenging to realize nanoframes with complex architecture due to the lack of appropriate synthetic protocol that could help achieve high yields.
Aug 23, 2022
