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Mapping Unexplored Genome Region Could Boost Genetic Testing

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Using advanced imaging techniques, researchers have mapped a region of the human genome that was once uncharted. This could prompt new genetic testing, as that region gives rise to a variety of diseases. The team, led by researchers from the Uni...

Oct 16, 2019

Creating and trapping trions at room temperature

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A team chemically engineered carbon nanotubes to synthesize and trap trions at room temperature. Trions are quasi particles that can potentially carry more information than electrons in applications from bioimaging to chemical sensing and quantum ...

Oct 16, 2019

Nanomesh drug delivery provides hope against global antibiotic resistance

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The fight against global antibiotic resistance has taken a major step forward with scientists discovering a concept for fabricating nanomeshes as an effective drug delivery system for antibiotics.

Oct 16, 2019

Quantum dots technology to revolutionize healthcare and sensing technology

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Researchers of the Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Unit (OPEM) at the University of Oulu have invented a new method of producing ultra-sensitive hyper-spectral photodetectors. At the heart of the discovery are colloidal quantum dots, de...

Oct 16, 2019

Alignment of single-wall carbon nanotubes along common axis

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The researchers used machine-vision automation and parallelization to simultaneously produce globally aligned, single-wall carbon nanotubes using pressure-driven filtration.

Oct 16, 2019

Study significantly advances alignment of single-wall carbon nanotubes along common axis

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A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have shown, for the first time, the ability to globally align single-wall carbon nanotubes along a common axis. This discovery can be valuable in many areas of technology, such as electronics, optics...

Oct 16, 2019

Diversity May Be Key to Reducing Errors in Quantum Computing

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In quantum computing, as in team building, a little diversity can help get the job done better, computer

Oct 16, 2019

Overlap allows nanoparticles to enhance light-based detection

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Rice University scientists have found revealing information where light from a molecule meets light from a nanoparticle. The

Oct 16, 2019

Researchers Surprised When Nano-Guitar String Plays Itself - Nano-Electronic Circuit Vibrates Without Any External Force

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Scientists at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford have created a nano-electronic circuit which vibrates without any external force. Using a tiny suspended wire,... The post Researchers Surprised When Nano-Guitar String Plays Itself –...

Oct 15, 2019

Researchers studied the fabrication of polymeric fibers for use in advanced health care

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Mohan Edirisinghe leads a team of researchers at University College London studying the fabrication of polymeric nanofibers and microfibers—very thin fibers made up of polymers. The group describes a study comparing fabrication techniques for thes...

Oct 15, 2019

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