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Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low-cost, easy-to-use, and rapid tests performed at ...
A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons.
Since the time of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, cancer has been recognized as being sensitive to heat. Today, this principle forms the basis of hyperthermia treatment鈥攁 promising cancer therapy that uses controlled ...
Researchers at The University of Warwick have published the first example of a synthetic sugar detection test for snake venom, offering a new route to rapid diagnosis and better antivenoms.
Nanomedicines, especially those based on nanoparticles, are revolutionizing health care in terms of both diagnostics and therapeutics. These particles, often containing metals like iron or gold, can serve as contrast agents ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
