A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times: What was once a pharmacologist's dream is now much closer to reality. With a combination of hydrogels and artificial DNA, nanoparticles can be released in s...
Jun 28, 2019
By testing a variety of gold nanoparticles, researchers are providing first evidence of their impact upon human B lymphocytes -- the immune cells responsible for antibody production. The use of these nanoparticles is expected to improve the effica...
Jun 28, 2019
How fast can a magnet switch its orientation and what are the microscopic mechanisms at play? These questions are of first importance for the development of data storage and computer chips. Now, an HZB team at BESSY II has for the first time been ...
Jun 28, 2019
Researcher: Until now, we could only look at dead, static nanomaterials New technology could revolutionize nanoscience similar to how live cell imaging revolutionized biology Team used new te...
Jun 28, 2019
Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ: NANO), a leading provider of advanced process control metrology and software analytics, and Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: RTEC), a leading provider of semiconduct...
Jun 28, 2019
Information and gravity may seem like completely different things, but one thing they have in common is that they can both be described in the framework of geometry. Building on this connection, a new paper suggests that the rules for optimal quan...
Jun 28, 2019
Over the past 20 years, the use of nanoparticles in medicine has steadily increased. However, their safety and effect on the human immune system remains an important concern. By testing a variety of gold nanoparticles, researchers at the Universit...
Jun 28, 2019
Comets screaming through the atmosphere of early Earth at tens of thousands of miles per hour likely contained measurable amounts of protein-forming amino acids. Upon impact, these amino acids self-assembled into significantly larger nitrogen-cont...
Jun 28, 2019
A new kind of electron microscopy permits scientists to analyze nanoscale tubular materials when they are “alive” and forming liquids—a first-of-its-kind in the field. The new...
Jun 28, 2019
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen have developed a method to visualize gene expression of cells with an electron microscope. Although electron microscopy currently provides the most detailed look into cells, it cannot differentiate which g...
Jun 28, 2019
