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Imagine a medical scanner that works faster and produces clearer images, or a radiation detector that pinpoints tiny traces of radioactive material with unprecedented accuracy. These futuristic possibilities are a step closer ...
A study published in ACS Nano presents a novel biosensor for the isothermal, highly sensitive detection of bladder cancer biomarkers鈥攎iRNAs, short non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression鈥攗sing programmable pH-responsive ...
Health care professionals use tiny particles of gold (nanoparticles) for a variety of medical applications鈥攆rom diagnostic imaging to cancer treatment. Gold works well for these applications because it doesn't cause adverse ...
A research team has developed a novel aerosol-based emulsion system that enables the self-assembly of asymmetric nanostructures鈥攕omething long considered a major challenge in materials science. The team includes researchers ...
A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old liquid-helium-cooled electron microscope, discovered the reason for the lack of improvement in the ...
PCR genetic analysis has been in the spotlight since COVID-19, but light is now further facilitating PCR-free methods. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a light-induced DNA detection technique, using ...
A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles鈥攎icroscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair鈥攎ight one day be used to help restore vision in people with macular degeneration ...
Researchers from ICMAB are revolutionizing how we manipulate light at the nanoscale using chiral plasmonic structures鈥攏anomaterials designed to interact with polarized light in extraordinary ways.
Recently, a team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of 麻豆淫院ical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) consecutively removed the innermost atom and the outermost electron of a gold nanoparticle鈥攚ithout disturbing ...
While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an average human hair), are ...
