When tiny particles called exosomes, which shuttle signals between cells, are defective in diabetic patients, they can drive inflammation and impair healing of wounds, according to a new Nano Today study led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC re...
Sep 8, 2023
Labels on your grocery store products might say “Spanish extra-virgin olive oil” or “New Zealand grass-fed beef,” but these are just words. How can such broad claims ever be verified? Food fraud—things like additives, dilutions, mislabeling, and s...
Sep 8, 2023
They are used as medicines, drug carriers and to combat microbes in hospitals, destroy plant pathogens and reduce the amount of traditional fertilizers used in agriculture—nanoparticles are taking over medicine and the agri-food industry.
Sep 8, 2023
Scientists develop tunable gold-polystyrene tracer nanoparticles that allow nanoplastics to be tracked in freshwater ecosystems, supporting critical research on plastic pollution.
Sep 8, 2023
Following Huawei's surprise launch of the seemingly 5G-capable Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro smartphones last week, the Chinese firm has today unveiled two more devices: the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable. Huawei was largely limited to 4G co...
Sep 8, 2023
Researchers at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Northrop Grumman, a multinational aerospace and defense technology co...
Sep 8, 2023
Nanoplastics (NPs) can cause a variety of adverse effects in humans, including physical damage, oxidative stress, impaired cell signaling, and developmental defects. The monitoring of NPs in the environment still remains a challenge due to their s...
Sep 8, 2023
Researchers developed hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers that use low laser power and cooling to precisely manipulate cells and nanoparticles without damage.
Sep 8, 2023
A team of researchers have pioneered a new method which utilizes DNA nanoballs for pathogen detection, aiming to streamline nucleic acid testing. Find out more about it in this article.
Sep 8, 2023
Researchers report how to produce nanopipettes that reliably provide nanoscale resolution scanning ion conductance microscopy images of living cells.
Sep 8, 2023
