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Curcumin can be delivered effectively into cells via tiny nanoparticles

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For years, curry lovers have sworn by the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric, but its active compound, curcumin, has long frustrated scientists hoping to validate these claims with clinical studies.

Mar 5, 2020

Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage

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Scientists advance case for use of molecular machines to treat skin diseases.

Mar 5, 2020

Longest microwave quantum link

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Physicists at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a five-meter-long microwave quantum link, the longest of its kind to date. It can be used both for future quantum computer networks and for experiments in basic quantum physics research.

Mar 5, 2020

Here's how nanoparticles could help us get closer to a treatment for COVID-19

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The idea of using nanoparticle is that the virus behind COVID-19 consists of a structure of a similar scale as his nanoparticles.

Mar 5, 2020

New carbon-based nanomaterial: Facile diamond synthesis from lower 'diamondoids'

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In a new report published in Science Advances, Sulgiye Park and a research team in geological sciences, materials and energy sciences, advanced research and advanced radiation sources in the U.S. and Beijing, China, developed a carbon-based nanoma...

Mar 5, 2020

Synthetic synapses get more like a real brain

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The human brain, fed on just the calorie input of a modest diet, easily outperforms state-of-the-art supercomputers powered by full-scale station energy inputs. The difference stems from the multiple states of brain processes versus the two binary...

Mar 5, 2020

Here's how nanoparticles could help us get closer to a treatment for COVID-19

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There is no vaccine or specific treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2.

Mar 5, 2020

Water splitting observed on the nanometer scale

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It is a well-known school experiment: Applying a voltage between two electrodes inserted in water produces molecular hydrogen and oxygen. Researchers seek to make water splitting as energy-efficient as possible to advance industrial applications. ...

Mar 5, 2020

Curcumin is the spice of life when delivered via tiny nanoparticles

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Researchers have developed a nano formulation which changes curcumin?s behaviour to increase its oral bioavailability by 117 per cent.

Mar 5, 2020

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