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Gene-disabling nanoparticles prevent obesity in mice

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Disabling a gene in specific mouse cells, researchers have prevented mice from becoming obese, even after the animals had been fed a high-fat diet.

May 5, 2020

Nanoparticles break down explosives in wastewater

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An activated carbon filter can purify your drinking water, but it's no match for wastewater that contains military-grade explosives. To clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization, engineers are testing a novel technology ...

May 5, 2020

Researchers developing metallic polymers by exploiting topological order and π-conjugation

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid have presented a new strategy to fabricate quasi-metallic 1-D polymers with atomic precision, in collaboration with The Czech Academy of Science...

May 5, 2020

Tiny technology cleans dirty water

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An activated carbon filter—found in many household filtration systems—can purify your drinking water, but it's no match for wastewater that contains military-grade explosives. To clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization...

May 5, 2020

Hydrogen and nanomaterials may transform energy industry, according to Baker Institute

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to fundamentally transform the global energy landscape — but

May 5, 2020

Obesity prevented in mice treated with gene-disabling nanoparticles

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Disabling a gene in specific mouse cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have

May 5, 2020

Obesity prevented in mice treated with gene-disabling nanoparticles

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Disabling a gene in specific mouse cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have prevented mice from becoming obese, even after the animals had been fed a high-fat diet.

May 5, 2020

Scientists produce a magnetic nanocrystal with many potential applications

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Spinels are oxides with chemical formulas of the type AB2O4, where A is a divalent metal cation (positive ion), B is a trivalent metal cation, and O is oxygen. Spinels are valued for their beauty, which derives from the molecules' spatial con...

May 5, 2020

Nanohybrid Material Could be Activated Against Tumor Cells in Blood

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

When a tumor enters in the stage of regression and the patient is considered as healed, there often remains the fear of recurrence, a disease that unfortunately has a certain incidence.

May 5, 2020

New Technology to Reveal Nanoscale Architectures of Specimen Constituents

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Since Robert Hooke's first description of a cell in Micrographia 350 years ago, microscopy has played an important role in understanding the rules of life.

May 5, 2020

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