Medical Weekly: Top trends for 5/28-6/1
Enjoy this week’s wrap up of trending medical news! Rats paralyzed due to spinal cord injury walking again thanks to new therapy Rats that were previously paralyzed as the result of spinal cord...
View ArticleA new test to diagnose glucose intolerance
A new test to diagnose celiac disease could be available in the near future. The disease causes gluten intolerance, leading to inflammation of the small intestine when the sufferer consumes food...
View ArticleNuclear weapon simulations calculate in molecular detail
U.S. researchers at Purdue University and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are perfecting simulations that show a nuclear weapon's performance in precise molecular detail. These tools are...
View ArticleStretching DNA and molecules in a systematic manner
Unique patterns generate when two immiscible fluids flow together and this has been a factor for scientists to develop a new tool for studying tiny biomolecules.Researchers at the National Taiwan...
View ArticleNano cable shows unusually high capacitance
Coaxial cable consists of an inner conducting wire, coated by a non-conducting dielectric, which is in turn coated by another conducting layer. This type of wire has never before been replicated on...
View ArticleX-ray lasers generated from tabletop device
Laser-like X-ray beams can now be generated from a tabletop device. Most current X-ray lasers depend on facilities that are at least the size of football stadiums. Researchers from the University of...
View ArticleHarvard researchers prevent icing
The accumulation of ice under high-humidity freezing conditions is a significant problem in everything from your refrigerator to high-flying aircraft. For years, researchers have been searching for a...
View ArticleThe lighter side of RNA interference
Researchers from MIT announced last week that they have engineered tiny particles made out of RNA and DNA, utilizing a technique called “nucleic acid origami,” that can deliver small interfering RNA...
View ArticleNew graphene MRI contrast agent a groundbreaking medical advance
New research out of Stony Brook University holds significant potential to revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, especially for medical applications. In a paper published in PloS...
View ArticleASU research to fight a common form of kidney disease gains support
Nanotechnology could be the key to understanding a common form of kidney disease. The work done by Arizona State University (ASU) researchers is receiving support from the National Institutes of...
View ArticleNIST effort could improve high-tech medical scanners
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure a powerful color-based imaging technique performs as well when discerning oxygen-depleted tissues and...
View ArticleFirefly-inspired bioluminescence
Fireflies utilize a relatively well-understood chemical process to produce light -- but they can only glow certain colors. In an upcoming issue of Nano Letters, researchers at Syracuse University...
View ArticleNanocontainers to treat narrowed arteries
Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have developed a new treatment to combat the leading cause of death worldwide. Atherosclerosis, or the hardening and narrowing of the arteries...
View ArticlePeel to particles: pomegranates
For everyone who has ever had too much pomegranate peel and not enough nanoparticles around their house, this may be your lucky day. A collaborative research team is working to solve just this...
View ArticleNanoscale Solar Sandwich
North Carolina State University researchers have devised a new nanoscale “sandwich” design technique for thin-film solar cells, creating significantly slimmer cells without sacrificing efficiency. A...
View ArticlePowerful nanoscale oscillator
UCLA researchers use a novel application of technology to develop a powerful microwave oscillator that may lead to cheaper and more efficient mobile communications. Typical oscillators function by...
View ArticleRough surfaces for heat dissipation
MIT researchers set out to better understand cooling that occurs across a liquid-gas phase changes. In particular, to maximize cooling, the group varied the roughness of a surface and found that...
View ArticleNanotech does your laundry
University of Warwick Chemistry researchers discover that carbon nanocrystals significantly enhance cold-water detergents. Most fats, particularly those found in crystallized form on our dirty...
View ArticleSupercomputer calculates isotopes allowed by laws of physics
A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Departments of Energy's Jaguar supercomputer to calculate the number of isotopes allowed by the laws of physics. They applied density functional theory...
View ArticleWorld's smallest 3D nanoscale optical cavities hold promise for intense...
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have developed the world’s smallest...
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