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Implantable microparticles can deliver two cancer therapies at once

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Researchers designed tiny particles that can be implanted at a cancer tumor site, where they deliver two types of therapy: heat and chemotherapy.

Oct 29, 2024

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics raises $50 million Series B to advance graphene-based brain-computer interface technology

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INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a brain-computer interface therapeutics (BCI-Tx) company developing graphene-based neural technologies, has announced the closing of a $50 million Series B financing round. The round was led by imec.xpand with new investo...

Oct 29, 2024

What if you eat nanoplastics?

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In a laboratory set-up simulating the human stomach and intestine, researchers at the University of Amsterdam have explored the fate of plastic nanoparticles during gastrointestinal digestion. In a paper in Chemosphere, they report how a range of ...

Oct 28, 2024

Researchers propose novel biosensor for miRNA assay

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are valuable biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of miRNAs which play i...

Oct 28, 2024

Novel self-cleaning electrode developed for alkaline-earth metal peroxide synthesis

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Metal peroxide (MO2, M=Ca, Sr, Ba) is an alternative to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). It has excellent oxidative properties, superior chemical stability, high purity, and is easy to store and transport. It has been widely used in wastewater treatment ...

Oct 28, 2024

The gold standard: Researchers enhance cardiology imaging by using gold nanoparticles

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Researchers at the University of Ottawa have made a breakthrough in heart disease diagnostics. They have developed a new type of contrast agent for a medical imaging technique called intravascular optical coherence tomography (IV-OCT). This new ag...

Oct 28, 2024

Rapid liquid biopsy method to capture extracellular vesicles offers avenue to affordable cancer diagnosis

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There are billions of tiny packets of cellular material called extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are produced by cells and released into each person's blood, saliva, and other bodily fluids. EVs contain invaluable information, such as protein...

Oct 28, 2024

Significant extension of zinc battery lifespan

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The transition to renewable energy requires efficient methods for storing large amounts of electricity. Researchers have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of...

Oct 28, 2024

Nanoscale layer boosts signal strength in fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

While we might picture a biologist as a researcher hunched over a light microscope, carefully scrutinizing a single bacterium, modern scientists have more powerful instruments at their disposal to investigate, at much smaller scales, the internal ...

Oct 28, 2024

A single thin film perfectly absorbs all electromagnetic waves

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The research team of Dr. Byeongjin Park and Dr. Sang Bok Lee from the Composites & Convergence Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed the world's first ultra-thin film composite m...

Oct 28, 2024

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