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Study Shows How Nanosized Trojan Horses Could be Used for Treating Inflammatory Diseases

Nanosized Trojan horses formed from a patient’s immune cells have overcome the body’s complex defense mechanisms and effectively treated inflammation, potentially paving the way for broader applications for treating inflammatory diseases, like cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

25 May 2016

Ice-Resistant, Graphene-Based Material Could Prove Suitable for Extreme Environments

Researchers at Rice University have developed a graphene-based de-icer to provide dual purpose. The novel material continues to melt ice from wings and wires when it becomes too cold. However, if the air is above 7°F, ice would not form at all.

24 May 2016

Physicists Reveal Size Quantization of Charge Carriers in Graphene

Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of things at atomic scales, where things work much differently from our daily world.

24 May 2016

Dual Nanoparticle Delivery Mechanism Offers New Anti-Cancer Therapy

Scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have developed a novel drug delivery mechanism that uses two separate vehicles, permitting the delivery of physically and chemically different agents. This mechanism was used to deliver a unique anti-cancer combination therapy containing piperlongumine (PL) and TRAIL for treatment of HCT116 colon cancer cells and PC3 prostate cancer.

24 May 2016

Viennese Scientists Resolve Graphene’s Quantum Effects

The discovery of wonder material graphene was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. The material contains a layer of carbon atoms set in a honeycomb lattice. However, the study of graphene did not stop at this point. New fascinating properties of graphene are still being discovered. Now, an international group of scientists have described the strange behavior of electrons passing through thin constrictions in a layer of graphene. These findings have been published in the Nature Communications journal.

24 May 2016

MIT Researchers Develop SWNT-Based Fluorescent Probes for Detection and Removal of Ovarian Cancer

It has been estimated that approximately 200,000 women globally are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, often in its late stages, each year. It is very difficult to detect ovarian cancer in its early stages, and by the time it is identified, the body is already invaded with numerous tumors.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 23 May 2016

Lipid Nanocarriers Could Pave Way for Brain Cancer Treatment

Pioneering discoveries can come in tiny packages, and only few know this better than Ann-Marie Broome, Ph.D., who thinks nanotechnology is the future of the medical field with its capability to distribute potent drugs in small, designer packages.

23 May 2016

Nanotube Beacon Helps Detect Tumor Location

According to Rice University scientists, in the future bathing a patient in LED light may offer an innovative way to find tumors.

23 May 2016

Novel Microfluidic Device Enables Automatic Double Extraction and Purification of Target Cells

A team of researchers from University of Cincinnati (UC) in Cincinnati, OH have developed a novel microfluidic device, which combines the inertial effect of fluid and microscale vortices generated in microchambers, to achieve simultaneous double sorting of rare target cells and removal of background cells.

23 May 2016

New Method for Rapid Neutrophil Chemotaxis Test Using Microfluidic System

A team of researchers from the University of Manitoba in collaboration with local clinical scientists in Winnipeg, Canada, have developed a new method for rapid neutrophil chemotaxis test directly from a small drop of whole blood using a microfluidic system.

23 May 2016

Ultrapure Silicon Nanoparticles Could Aid in Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

An international group of scientists from Russia and France, in collaboration with researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have successfully produced ultrapure silicon nanoparticles, which possess the characteristic of photoluminescence, that is, secondary light emission following photoexcitation.

23 May 2016

MIT Research Shows Nanoparticle Catalysts Could Reduce Need for Precious Metals

Materials that increase the speed of a chemical reaction without being used up in the process, called catalysts, lie within many technologies, right from vehicle emissions-control systems to high-tech devices like electrolyzers and fuel cells. Unfortunately, catalysts are often costly as they generally contain one or more noble metals, like palladium or platinum, both of which have limited supplies.

23 May 2016

Rewritable Magnetic Charge Ice Shows Promise for New Computing Technologies

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and headed by Zhili Xiao, Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist, have developed a new type of material dubbed, 'rewritable magnetic charge ice'. This material allows an unexceptional level of control over local magnetic fields that could provide new opportunities towards next-generation computing technologies.

23 May 2016

Graphene Makes Rubber Films Stronger and Stretchier

Researchers at The University of Manchester have demonstrated that when a small amount of graphene is added to thin rubber films, they become significantly stretchier and stronger.

20 May 2016

Researchers Create Graphene-Based, Ultralow-Power Transistor

Researchers have created a different type of graphene-based transistor and through modelling they have confirmed that it consumes very low power when compared to other equivalent transistor devices. These results have been published in the Scientific Reports journal.

19 May 2016