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Researchers develop magnetically switchable mechano-chemotherapy to overcome tumor drug resistance

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Prof. Wu Aiguo's team at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a novel therapeutic method termed mechano-chemotherapy,...

Oct 19, 2020

Creating perfect edges in 2-D-materials

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Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have published a study in Nature Communications in which they present a method for controlling the e...

Oct 19, 2020

Nanoparticles Release Bursts of Calcium to Kill Drug-Resistant Tumor Cells

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Multidrug resistance (MDR) -- a process in which tumors become resistant to multiple medicines -- is the main cause of failure of cancer chemotherapy. Tumor cells often acquire MDR by boosting their...

Oct 19, 2020

Complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors

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All modern life uses energy to reproduce itself. During this process, organisms build and break down larger molecules such as fats and sugars using a remarkably common set of reactive intermediate energy carrier molecules. These intermediate energ...

Oct 19, 2020

Creating perfect edges in 2D-materials

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Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers have now made an important advance within the field. In a recent article they present a method for controlling the edges of two-dimensional materi...

Oct 19, 2020

Engineers Create Helical Topological Exciton-Polaritons, a New Type of Quasiparticles with Applications in Quantum Computing

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Our understanding of quantum physics has involved the creation of a wide range of “quasiparticles.” These notional constructs

Oct 19, 2020

Researchers Detect Nanodiamonds in Fluid Inclusions of Oceanic Rock Samples

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According to an article published in the Geochemical Perspectives Letters journal, low pressure and temperature geological processes that occur on Earth can promote the formation of natural diamonds....

Oct 19, 2020

Creating perfect edges in 2D-materials

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Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now made an important advance within the field. In a recent paper in Nature Communications they...

Oct 19, 2020

New study shows how complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors

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Life as we know uses energy to reproduce itself. Organisms build and break down larger molecules using a common set of reactive intermediate energy carrier molecules. These carrier molecules help chaperone the reactions which build life's bio...

Oct 19, 2020

A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes

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Nanophotonics researchers at Rice University, the Polytechnic University of Milan and the Italian Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel technique for modulating light at terahertz frequencies with plasmonic metasurfaces.

Oct 19, 2020

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