A team of UC Davis scientists has shown in experimental mouse models that a new drug delivery system allows for administration of three times the maximum tolerated dose of a standard drug therapy for advanced bladder cancer, leading to more effective cancer control without increasing toxicity.
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Using clusters of tiny magnetic particles about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have shown that they can manipulate how thousands of cells divide, morph and develop finger-like extensions.
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Research success for the international research team including a fellow of the MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence
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A research team led by Dr. Noriki Terada from the Neutron Scattering Group of the Quantum Beam Unit at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Dr. Yoshihiro Tsujimoto from the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) together with the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has demonstrated that it is possible to largely control a magnetic material’s dielectric and magnetic properties by replacing nonmagnetic atoms with other atoms.
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Magnetic vortices in ferromagnetic disks are considered to be significant for their potential application in data storage systems based on non-volatile random access memory (RAM).
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Present count of magnetic atoms in one bit of data recorded on a hard disk is nearly 3 million.
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Data storage devices employ either magnetic or electronic memory cells. The use of individual molecules as memory cells would transform the data storage landscape as molecular memories result in a thousand-fold reduction in size.
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VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, has awarded a research grant worth SEK 3 million to Silex Microsystems, a pure-play MEMS foundry, to develop advanced ferromagnetic materials for MEMS devices for use in next-generation smartphones.
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A research team led by Saleh Naser and J. Manuel Perez, professors at the University of Central Florida, has devised a new technique based on nanoparticles, paving the way to detect pathogens, related to inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease, more effectively and rapidly.
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A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Royal Institute of Technology, and the University of Maryland Nanocenter has developed a new technique to identify flaws in nano-scale magnetic structures, even when they are buried beneath the surface of a multilayer electronic device.
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