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More efficient risk assessment for nanomaterials

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant challenges to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). To find more efficient test methods, researchers at the...

Dec 17, 2019

Nanoscience breakthrough: Probing particles smaller than a billionth of a meter

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) developed a new methodology that allows researchers to assess the chemical composition and structure of metallic particles with a diameter of only 0.5 to 2 nm. This breakthrough in analytic...

Dec 17, 2019

Growing carbon nanotubes with the right twist

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

In a recently published paper in Science Advances, Feng Ding of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, within the Institute of Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) and colleagues, have achieved the creation of a specific type of carbon nan...

Dec 17, 2019

A new gene therapy strategy, courtesy of Mother Nature

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes.

Dec 17, 2019

Liquid-like behaviour displayed but phase remains stable in ultrathin hexagonal gold nanoribbons

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have discovered that the ultrathin gold nanoribbons with unique hexagonal (4H type) crystal phase shows 'liquid-like' behaviour under heating, but its hexagonal crystalline structure remains stable. This provides insight into ...

Dec 17, 2019

The world's fastest molecular shuttle

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Thanks to a clever chemical design, researchers have succeeded in making a very fast molecular machine. The moving parts shift more than one nanometre relative to each other in a record-breaking time of 30 billionths of a second.

Dec 17, 2019

New gene therapy has potential to reverse disease processes

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes.

Dec 17, 2019

A new playbook for interference

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The interference between two photons could connect distant quantum processors, enabling an internet-like quantum computer network.

Dec 17, 2019

What happens to gold nanoparticles in cells?

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Gold nanoparticles, which are supposed to be stable in biological environments, can be degraded inside cells.

Dec 16, 2019

A new gene therapy strategy, courtesy of nature: Scientists turn a natural cellular process into a drug-delivery system

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes.

Dec 16, 2019

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