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New Nano-Carrier Tested for Potential Treatment of Glioblastomas

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor, has a survival rate of just five years. It is particularly challenging to treat, with existing therapies...

Feb 24, 2021

3D-printing perovskites on graphene makes next-gen X-ray detectors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

By using 3D aerosol jet-printing to put perovskites on graphene, scientists have made X-ray detectors with record sensitivity that can greatly improve the efficiency and reduce the cost and health hazard of medical imaging devices.

Feb 24, 2021

Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Carbon nanotubes are tiny. They can be a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. But they have huge potential.

Feb 24, 2021

Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists describe a way to measure levels of a specific kind of carbon nanotube in plant tissues.

Feb 24, 2021

Buckyballs on DNA for harvesting light

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Supramolecular structure boosts efficiency of light harvesting for solar cells.

Feb 24, 2021

New glioma-targeted nano-therapeutic offers a potential treatment for glioblastomas

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

With a survival rate of only five years, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, is notoriously hard to treat using current regimens that rely on surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and their combinations.

Feb 24, 2021

Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants.

Feb 24, 2021

Buckyballs on DNA for harvesting light

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology show that DNA can serve as a scaffold for light-harvesting supramolecules, where fluorescent dyes work as electron donors and buckyballs as electron acceptors. The DNA's regular 3D struct...

Feb 24, 2021

Fantastic voyage: Nanobodies could help CRISPR turn genes on and off

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

"CRISPR can precisely locate specific genes," says Lacramioara Bintu, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford. "What we did was attach CRISPR to nanobodies to help it perform specific actions when it reached the right s...

Feb 24, 2021

Twin atoms: A source for entangled particles

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

One of the most important phenomena in quantum physics is entanglement - used for quantum krypography, quantum computers and many other applications. While it is easy to create pairs of entangled photons, it is much harder to create entangled atom...

Feb 24, 2021

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