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Electronic detection of DNA nanoballs enables simple pathogen detection

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have developed a novel method using DNA Nanoballs to detect pathogens, aiming to simplify nucleic acid testing and revolutionize pathogen detection. This could pave the way for a straightforward electronic-based test capable of identify...

Sep 7, 2023

A Single Drug Could Treat America's Top Two Killer Diseases

ScienceAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Two birds, one nano-sized stone.

Sep 7, 2023

Innovative plasmonic nanotweezer rapidly traps potentially cancerous nanosized particles

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a way to more quickly, and precisely, trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using a cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezer.

Sep 7, 2023

Novel device combines nanopores with electronic signals for disease detection

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In living organisms, cells have a very high capacity to process and communicate information by moving molecules or ions through tiny channels that span the cell membrane. Scientists have created a device that mimics this biological concept in orde...

Sep 7, 2023

Newly discovered nanobody may lead to a treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine, believe they have discovered a special antibody which may lead to a treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa, a condition that causes loss of central vision, as well as night and color vision.

Sep 7, 2023

This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

People have expected great things from Alice Parker, who was raised in a family of distinguished scientists and engineers. And Parker, emerita professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered....

Sep 6, 2023

Researchers develop plasmonic nanotweezers to more rapidly trap potentially cancerous nanosized particles

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a way to more quickly and precisely trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezers.

Sep 6, 2023

Novel device combines nanopores with electronic signals for disease detection

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In living organisms, cells have a very high capacity to process and communicate information by moving molecules or ions through tiny channels that span the cell membrane. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marco Rolandi...

Sep 6, 2023

China intensifies its crackdown on officials using iPhones

Engadget   -   General News Websites

China has widened a ban on the use of iPhones and other imported devices by government officials, according to The Wall Street Journal. State employees were reportedly told in chat groups and meetings not to bring foreign-branded device into the o...

Sep 6, 2023

Scientists demonstrate new, improved way to make infrared light, with quantum dots

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists with the University of Chicago have demonstrated a way to create infrared light using colloidal quantum dots. The researchers said the method demonstrates great promise; the dots are already as efficient as existing conventional methods...

Sep 6, 2023

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