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Nanomotor guided inside a living cell using a magnetic field

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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has developed a type of nanomotor that can be guided inside of a living cell using an external magnetic field. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, the gr...

Apr 17, 2018

BESSY II sheds light on how the internal compass is constructed in magnetotactic bacteria

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Magnetotactic bacteria can sense the Earth's magnetic field via magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal compass. Spanish teams and experts at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have now examined the magnetic compass of Magnetospiril...

Apr 17, 2018

Graphene-oxide-based membranes for large-scale energy storage systems

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As a promising large-scale energy storage technology, redox flow batteries (RFBs) are attracting increasingly more research attention. For RFB separators, the essential requirement is achieving high ionic conductivity with minimal cross-over at lo...

Apr 17, 2018

Graphene Is Grown With the Same Bandgap as Silicon

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No doping or nanostructuring is required for new bottom-up method to grow graphene with a perfect bandgap

Apr 16, 2018

Graphene Is Grown With the Same Bandgap as Silicon

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No doping or nanostructuring is required for new bottom-up method to grow graphene with a perfect bandgap

Apr 16, 2018

Driving nanomotors through road blocks inside living cells

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Researchers demonstrate that helical shaped magnetic nanomotors can be maneuvered inside a living cell. This new and versatile technique has the potential ability to position any payload at any desired location inside a living cell itself, which i...

Apr 16, 2018

Nanobots Glide Through Living Cells

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Rotating magnetic fields precisely steer the nanomachines, tracing letters in cytoplasm

Apr 13, 2018

Nanosilicates grow bone and cartilage tissue from stem cells in the absence of growth factors

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Researchers have demonstrated that a specific type of two-dimensional (2D) nanoparticles, nanosilicates, can grow bone and cartilage tissue from stem cells in the absence of growth factors. These nanoparticles are similar in shape to a coin, but 1...

Apr 13, 2018

Researchers review potential of targeted nanocarriers to revolutionize cancer care

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A new Tel Aviv University study addresses the challenges of nanoparticle-based cancer-targeting strategies. It also suggests ways of refocusing the collaborative work of cancer researchers and clinicians to move the field forward from "the bench" ...

Apr 12, 2018

Scientists unlock path to use cell's own nanoparticles as disease biomarkers

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Researchers at the University of Sydney have established a method to identify individual nanoparticles released by human cells, opening the way for them to become diagnostic tools in the early-detection of cancers, dementia and kidney disease.

Apr 12, 2018

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