Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is is the most common type of primary liver cancer and one of the most aggressive and hyper-vascularized forms of cancer. Many current chemotherapeutics fail to achieve the effective therapeutic index in the solid tu...
May 14, 2020
When winter smog takes over Asian mega-cities, more particulate matter is measured in the streets than expected. An international team has now discovered that nitric acid and ammonia contribute to the formation of additional particulate matter. Ni...
May 14, 2020
Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, or Chardonnay -- when you reach for your favorite white, it's the clean, clear sparkle that first catches your eye. Or does it? When white wines look cloudy it's a sign of protein instability, and a sure-fire w...
May 13, 2020
Writing in the journal NanoResearch, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports this week that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made.
May 13, 2020
Widely tuneable continuous-wave lasers based on OPO technology ease qubit characterization The post Tuneable light speeds up the search for the perfect qubit appeared first on Physics World.
May 13, 2020
Scientists report that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made. It uses electric-charge-conducting protein nanowires derived from the bacterium Geobacter to provide biomaterials for electri...
May 13, 2020
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)— otherwise known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient, emerging from the surface of cells...
May 13, 2020
The future looks bright for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) as they look destined for use in quantum computing and deep learning technologies. As PICs carry light signals rather than electrical signals, accurate control of their refractive pro...
May 13, 2020
Chemists developed a freeze-thaw method, capable of synthesizing various noble metal aerogels (NMAs) with clean surfaces and multiscale structure. In virtue of their hierarchical structures and unique optical properties, outstanding performance fo...
May 13, 2020
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which consist of a single layer of atoms, have attracted a lot of attention since the isolation of graphene in 2004. They have unique electrical, optical, and mechanica...
May 13, 2020
