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Marine Sponge Forms Glass Filament with Perfect Periodic Arrangement of Nanopores

Materials made by man and those made by biological organisms often deal with similar synthesis challenges – occasionally converging on an analogous solution independently. One example is the giant glass rod that is used by the sea sponge M. chuni to anchor itself in marine environments.

25 Feb 2014

Mimicking Behavior of Cells May Help Make Things Work Using Nanoscale Components

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of proteins, antibodies, and viruses—mimicking the behavior of cells is a good place to start since cells carry an enormous amount of information in a very tiny packet. As Erik Winfree, professor of computer science, computation and neutral systems, and bioengineering, explains, "I tend to think of cells as really small robots.

25 Feb 2014

Novel Microparticles with Three Chemically Different Segments

A team of researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Michigan/USA has produced novel microparticles, whose surface consists of three chemically different segments.

24 Feb 2014

RBCC-n3D JV Well-Positioned to Capitalize on Rise of 3D Printing in Medicine

As Rainbow Coral Corp. works to market and develop an innovative new 3D bioprinting system, new 3D printing innovations are generating massive new demand for the technology from patients and doctors alike in the medical industry.

24 Feb 2014

Visible Light Activates Photocatalytic Materials through Application of Nanotechnology

The Polymer Materials Unit of the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), in collaboration with Kyoto University, succeeded in the development of photocatalytic materials which can be activated by visible light, through the application of nanotechnology.

24 Feb 2014

Researchers Bridge Nanoscale Molecular-Level Biochemical Interactions with Macroscale Cancer Tumor Outcomes

Life can be messy at all scales, requiring different organizational strategies -- from cleaning the house, to removing damaged or expired cells from the body to avoid cancer progression.

20 Feb 2014

Single-Cell Systems May be Used as ‘Nanofactories’ for Production of Complex Biomaterials

An almost infinite number of complex and interlinked reactions take place in a biological cell. In order to be able to better investigate these networks, scientists led by Professor Friedrich Simmel, Chair of Systems Biophysics and Nano Biophysics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) try to replicate them with the necessary components in a kind of artificial cell.

19 Feb 2014

JPK CellHesion® 200 Used for Cancer Cell Studies at University Hospital Münster

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the current cancer research project of Dr Florian T Ludwig at the Institute of Physiology II, University Hospital Münster, who uses a CellHesion® 200 to measure the adhesive forces between tumor cells.

From Bruker BioAFM 18 Feb 2014

Researchers Create Living Liquid Crystal

Plop living, swimming bacteria into a novel water-based, nontoxic liquid crystal and a new physics takes over. The dynamic interaction of the bacteria with the liquid crystal creates a novel form of soft matter: living liquid crystal.

18 Feb 2014

Researchers Study the Dorsal Habenula in Zebrafish

How do our brains combine information from the external world (sensory stimulation) with information on our internal state such as hunger, fear or stress? NERF-scientists demonstrate that the habenula, a specific part in our brain consisting of neural circuits, acts as a gate for sensory information, thus regulating behavior in response to external stimuli.

17 Feb 2014