An extensive experiment testing the immune effects of lab-designed nucleic acid nanoparticles found varying and specific responses from various immune cells, depending on each particle's shape and formulation, a finding that may encourage further ...
Jul 26, 2018
Scientists decode the unusual growth characteristic of carbon nanotubes that start out as one chirality but switch to another, resulting in nearly homogenous batches of single-walled nanotubes.
Jul 26, 2018
Scientists have designed a drug encapsulation system that selectively targets senescent cells. The study paves the way for therapeutic approaches to eliminate senescent cells in many diseases, such as pulmonary fibrosis and cancer.
Jul 26, 2018
Adding graphene to a gel makes a 3D-printable substance that dries to be strong and conductive and heals when wet
Jul 26, 2018
Researchers develop coating technique to create ceramic ultra-thin films using solution.
Jul 26, 2018
An extensive experiment testing the immune effects of a broad group of lab-designed nucleic acid nanoparticles did not find a strong, uniform immune response, as had been predicted. Instead, the tests found varying and specific responses from diff...
Jul 26, 2018
Theorists find mechanism behind nearly pure nanotubes from the unusual catalyst.
Jul 26, 2018
In the treatment of cancer, chemotherapy is a cleaver, not a scalpel. By attacking rapidly dividing cells, chemotherapy effectively fights tumors, but it also ravages healthy cells in the gut, bone marrow, the scalp and other organs, leading to se...
Jul 26, 2018
Three researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have earned the department’s 2018 Early Career Research Program Award. Argonne's (left to right) Prasanna Balaprakash, Karen Mulfort, and Zh...
Jul 26, 2018
The U.S. DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded researchers $1.1 million to study single nanoparticles and their ability to act as electrocatalysts.
Jul 26, 2018
