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Inhalable Sensors Could Enable Early Lung Cancer Detection

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then taking a urine test that reveals whether a tumor is present.

Jan 9, 2024

Method Creates Quantum Dots for Consumer CMOS SWIR Image Sensors

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from ICFO and ICFO computer vision spinout Qurv have fabricated a high-performance shortwave-infrared (SWIR) image sensor based on nontoxic colloidal quantum dots (CQDs). In their study, the team reports on a method for synthesizing fu...

Jan 9, 2024

Breakthrough in Graphene: Novel Semiconductor Signals Leap Towards Faster PCs, Quantum Computers

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Georgia Tech researchers achieve a milestone, crafting the world's inaugural functional graphene semiconductor, introducing a novel approach to electronics. Check out more details in this article.

Jan 9, 2024

Creating novel amino acid nanoparticles with enhanced anticancer activity

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers use nanoparticles made of UV light crosslinked amino acids, loaded with doxorubicin and coated with tannic acid complex to target cancer cells.

Jan 9, 2024

Amino acid nanoparticles show promise for cancer treatment

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Amino acids, such as tyrosine and tryptophan, are the fundamental building blocks that make up proteins.

Jan 8, 2024

This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Rebecca Richards-Kortum has spent most of her 30-year career developing technology to help improve medical care in underserved communities worldwide. Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that...

Jan 8, 2024

Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Effect demonstrated using silicon dioxide nanoribbon waveguides The post Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity appeared first on Physics World.

Jan 8, 2024

Tumor microenvironment-activated nanostructure enables precise multi-modal therapy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Wu Zhengyan from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration Binzhou Medical University, successfully designed a nanostructure that improves the detection and treatment...

Jan 8, 2024

Bottled water can contain hundreds of thousands of previously uncounted tiny plastic bits

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

In recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth, from polar ice to soil, drinking water and food. Formed when plastics break down into progressively smaller bit...

Jan 8, 2024

MP visits world leading graphene engineering facility at University of Manchester

Manchester Gorton MP Afzal Khan has visited The University of Manchester’s multi-million-pound engineering facility which provides industry-led development in graphene applications.

Jan 8, 2024

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