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Cell-membrane coated nanoparticles light up two cancer biomarkers at once to give more complete picture of tumor

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Cancer surgeons may soon have a more complete view of tumors during surgery, thanks to new imaging agents that can illuminate multiple biomarkers at once, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report. The fluorescent nanoparticles, w...

Jun 5, 2023

Imaging agents light up two cancer biomarkers at once to give more complete picture of tumor

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The fluorescent nanoparticles, wrapped in the membranes of red blood cells, target tumors better than current clinically approved dyes and can emit two distinct signals in response to just one beam of surgical light, a feature that could help doct...

Jun 5, 2023

Wearable textile captures energy from body movement to power devices

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Nanoscientists have developed a wearable textile that can convert body movement into useable electricity and even store that energy. The fabric potentially has a wide range of applications from medical monitoring to assisting athletes and their co...

Jun 5, 2023

Smart surgical implant coatings provide early failure warning while preventing infection

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The coatings integrate flexible sensors with a nanostructured antibacterial surface inspired by the wings of dragonflies and cicadas.

Jun 5, 2023

Quantum computers are better at guessing, new study demonstrates

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Daniel Lidar, the Viterbi Professor of Engineering at USC and Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and Dr. Bibek Pokharel, a Research Scientist at IBM Quantum, have achieved a quantum speedup advantage i...

Jun 5, 2023

3D printing near net shape parts with no post-processing

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Carnegie Mellon University Professor Rahul Panat, and his team, were developing a new type of 3D printed Brain-Computer Interface (or BCI) device where custom micropillars capture the communication signals from neurons when they stumbled upon an u...

Jun 5, 2023

Could Nanoparticles be the Future of Brain Cancer Treatment?

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A group of researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, has recently developed an innovative nanoparticle-based drug delivery system that may help to overcome some of the challenges associated with drug delivery for certain brain c...

Jun 5, 2023

Carbon-based stimuli-responsive nanomaterials: Their classification and application

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Carbon-based stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are gaining much attention due to their versatility, including disease diagnosis and treatment. They work under endogenous (pH, temperature, enzyme, and redox) or exogenous (temperature, light, magneti...

Jun 5, 2023

Scaling Up Quantum Computers: RIKEN Scientists Connect Distant Silicon Qubits

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The linking of two distant qubits will help to develop larger, more complex quantum computers based on silicon quantum dots.

Jun 5, 2023

Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins

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Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important step toward being able to design antibiotics and antivirals on demand, and a computer model developed at the University of Michigan can do it.

Jun 5, 2023

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