Vikas Nanda has spent more than two decades studying the intricacies of proteins, the highly complex substances present in all living organisms. The Rutgers scientist has long contemplated how the unique patterns of amino acids that comprise prote...
Nov 2, 2022
Cancer is characterized by a number of key biological processes known as the "hallmarks of cancer," which remodel cells and their immediate environment so that tumors can form, grow, and thrive. Many of these changes are mediated by spec...
Nov 2, 2022
Wearing face masks has been recognized as one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19, even in its coming endemic phase. Apart from the conventional function of masks, the potential for smart masks to monitor human physiologic...
Nov 2, 2022
Recent progress in the fabrication of nanostructures has led to their application in several fields, including biomedicine, chemistry, materials engineering, and environmental remediation.
Nov 2, 2022
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are phylogenetically and morphologically diverse prokaryotes that share an ancestral capability of producing intracellular magnetite (Fe3O4) or/and greigite (Fe3S4) nanocrystals within organelles called magnetosomes.
Nov 2, 2022
In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale—quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.—requires those magnetic mo...
Nov 2, 2022
Quantum devices are becoming ever more complex and powerful. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Technology Sydney, are now presenting a method to characterize...
Nov 2, 2022
Two-dimensional (2D) graphene-based nanomaterials have demonstrated tremendous prospects in biomedical applications owing to their unique physicochemical properties. Intratumorally administered graphene oxide nanosheets have been reported with wid...
Nov 2, 2022
In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale --quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.-- requires those magneti...
Nov 2, 2022
Researchers recently invented a smart mask, integrating an ultrathin nanocomposite sponge structure-based soundwave sensor, which is capable of detecting respiratory sounds of breathing, coughing and speaking.
Nov 2, 2022
