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Twinkle, twinkle, little star: Physicists develop a new method for counting molecules

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Who hasn't looked at the sky on a mild summer night and thought about the vastness of the universe? The trained eye can see the Andromeda galaxy as a distant spot. Thanks to the latest telescopes, we know that it consists of over a trillion s...

Feb 26, 2021

Nanomedicine activation profile determines efficacy depending on tumor c-Myc expression

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The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine reported in ACS Nano together with the group of Prof. Yu Matsumoto of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and the group of Prof. Horacio Cabral of the Department of Bioengineering in the University o...

Feb 26, 2021

Changing the silkworm's diet to spin stronger silk

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Researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the silkworms resulted in a stronger and more tensile silk.

Feb 26, 2021

Sub-diffraction optical writing enables data storage at the nanoscale

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have overcome the limitation of laser-enabled optical data storage by using earth-rich lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide flakes.

Feb 26, 2021

From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses.

Feb 26, 2021

How photoblueing disturbs microscopy

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The latest developments in fluorescence microscopy make it possible to image individual molecules in cells or molecular complexes with a spatial resolution of up to 20 nanometres. However, under certain circumstances, an effect occurs that falsifi...

Feb 26, 2021

Sub-diffraction optical writing enables data storage at the nanoscale

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The total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 175 zettabytes (1 ZB equals 1 billion terabytes) by 2025. If 175 ZB were stored on Blu-ray disks, the stack would be 23 times the distance to the moon. There is an urgent need to de...

Feb 26, 2021

Changing the silkworm's diet to spin stronger silk

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Tohoku University researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the silkworms resulted in a stronger and more ...

Feb 26, 2021

Taking new steps with artificial platelets

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers, led by biomedical engineering professor Anirban Sen Gupta is working toward innovating and advancing platelet-inspired nanotechnology

Feb 26, 2021

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