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Assessing the risks associated with nanoparticles in medical applications

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Nanomedicine is increasingly used in applications like drug delivery and diagnosis, with promising results in several fields, including oncology, cardiology and immunology. However, the rising popularity of nanobiomaterials (NBMs) also raises ques...

Feb 27, 2020

How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer

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A new mathematical tool developed at Brown could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in nature.

Feb 27, 2020

Polymers get caught up in love-hate chemistry of oil and water

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee achieved a rare look at the inner workings of polymer self-assembly at an oil-water interface to advance materials for neuromorphic computing and bio-inspired technologies.

Feb 27, 2020

Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

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Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of its kind, used the spontaneous parametric down-conversio...

Feb 27, 2020

Printer toner linked to genetic changes, health risks in new study

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According a new study by West Virginia University researcher Nancy Lan Guo, the microscopic toner nanoparticles that waft from laser printers may change our genetic and metabolic profiles in ways that make disease more likely.

Feb 27, 2020

Celiac disease might be cured by restoring immune tolerance to gliadin

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Celiac disease affects 0.3-2.4% of people in most countries world-wide, and approx. 2% in Finland. Celiac patients suffer from a variety of symptoms, typically intestinal complaints, such as diarrhea, but are often symptom-free. Immunologist Tobia...

Feb 27, 2020

KIER raised possibilities for urban use of ultralight flexible CIGS thin film solar cell

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Korea Institute of Energy Research found an efficiency improvement mechanism of polymer-substrate flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells and published the results in 'Nano Energy' (IF: 15.548).

Feb 27, 2020

Discovery of expanding pectin nanofilaments that manipulate plant cell shapes

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Scientists have discovered new filamentous structures within plant cell walls that influence cell growth and help build complex three-dimensional cell shapes.

Feb 27, 2020

The era of quantum supremacy is here

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Google made headlines in late 2019 with an experiment that demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time. Their quantum computer, the Sycamore Processor, took a mere 200 seconds to perform a computation that would have taken a traditional comp...

Feb 27, 2020

Hybrid neural network enables biological and artificial neurons to communicate over the internet

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Research on novel nanoelectronics devices led by the University of Southampton has enabled brain neurons and artificial neurons to communicate with each other.

Feb 26, 2020

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