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New Nanomedicines to Boost Efficiency of Prostate Cancer Treatment

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have created a new nanomedicine and marker which boosts the efficiency of a chemotherapy drug called docetaxel a hundredfold while enabling the early diagnosis of prostate cancer. In...

Feb 19, 2019

Smart droplets clean and repair surfaces

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers report a fluid-driven nanoparticle transportation clean-and-repair approach that reveals a novel self-healing system that conserves matter, behaves autonomously, and is implemented easily. Debris resting on a substrate is relocated, in...

Feb 19, 2019

Fluorescing urine signals organ transplant rejection, could replace needle biopsies

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Glowing pee may replace the biopsy needle: In detecting organ transplant rejection, a new nanoparticle has proven much faster and more thorough in the lab than a biopsy. When T cells mount their first attack on the organ's cells the nanoparti...

Feb 19, 2019

When a defect might be beneficial

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Rohan Mishra, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science in the McKelvey School of Engineering, led a widespread team of researchers -- including at Washington University, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesse...

Feb 19, 2019

New machine learning technique rapidly analyzes nanomedicines for cancer immunotherapy

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With their ability to treat a wide a variety of diseases, spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) are poised to revolutionize medicine. But before these digitally designed nanostructures can reach their full potential, researchers need to optimize their va...

Feb 19, 2019

Nanopores make portable mass spectrometer for peptides a reality

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University of Groningen scientists have developed nanopores that can be used to directly measure the mass of peptides. Although the resolution needs to be improved, this proof of principle shows that a cheap and portable peptide mass spectrometer ...

Feb 19, 2019

Dose of vitamin C helps gold nanowires grow

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Rice University scientists discover a method to turn stubby gold nanorods into gold nanowires of impressive length. The metal wires could be valuable for sensing, diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic applications.

Feb 19, 2019

New technology captures movement of quantum particles with unprecedented resolution

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A new Tel Aviv University study explores the activity of quantum particles in 2D materials within an unprecedented small time frame and at an extraordinarily high spatial resolution. These are highly sought-after capabilities for advanced communic...

Feb 19, 2019

Graphene 'sandwich' key to new electronics

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Graphene Flagship researchers managed to carve out graphene to nanoscale dimensions, solving one of the main challenges towards effective nano-electronics.

Feb 19, 2019

Can a flowing liquid-like material maintain its structural order like crystals?

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Scientists at Tokyo Tech discovered a chiral compound, which can spontaneously form a molecular assembly with an extremely large single domain structure beyond a size regime incapable of realizing with usual molecular self-assembly. The chiral com...

Feb 19, 2019

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