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Lab-on-a-Chip Device to Help Track Cancer Through Sound Waves

The stiffening of a structure that surrounds the human cells can denote the invasion of cancer to other parts of tissues, just like how a picked lock reveals that someone has invaded a building.

23 Mar 2020

New Plexiglass-Type Nanomaterial Could Serve as Replacement for Human Tissue

At the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, scientists have developed a novel, rubber-like material with exclusive properties. The material could serve as a substitute for human tissue in medical procedures.

17 Mar 2020

Gold Nanoparticles Used for Imaging and Profiling Amyloid Morphological Polymorphism

Robust tools have been designed by researchers at EPFL to unravel the diversity of amyloid fibrils that are linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

13 Mar 2020

Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets can Help Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Removing antibiotic-resistant bacteria from wastewater is not enough to eliminate the risks posed by these organisms to society. These bacteria leave behind bits that had to be destroyed as well.

13 Mar 2020

Researchers Create Fastest and Most Persistent DNA Motor at Nanoscale

Researchers have developed the world’s fastest and most persistent DNA nano motor using a technique called DNA origami.

4 Mar 2020

Active Ingredients-Coated Nanoparticles Could Destroy Cancer Cells

Nanoparticles have the ability to make their way easily into cells. For the first time, high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY II offer new insights about their distribution and function.

13 Feb 2020

New Nanoparticles Could Be Effective and More Affordable to Fight Cancer

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created nanoparticles with the ability to trigger, in the laboratory, immune responses to cancer cells.

30 Jan 2020

Drug-Coated Iron Nanowires Developed to Selectively Kill Tumor Cells

Iron nanowires coated with drugs can offer a better option for cancer therapy as they can be steered to the tumor site by an external magnetic field, before starting a three-step cancer-killing process.

29 Jan 2020

Can Nanoparticles Help Get Rid of Heart Attack Causing Plaques?

A group of scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) and Stanford University has created a particle intended to eliminate the plaques that cause heart attacks.

28 Jan 2020

Researchers Explore the Biological Effects of Nanomaterials

Despite the rising popularity of nanotechnology, the risk assessment for nanoparticles is an arduous process that poses considerable difficulties to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).

17 Dec 2019