Nanotechnology

Engineering at the nanoscale – DNA nanostructures, nanomaterials and the instruments built to manipulate matter atom by atom.

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DNA-based Nanorobotic Hand Revolutionizes Detection and Preventive Medicine for the Virus

Researchers at the laboratories of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are reporting on advancement in micro-bioparticle handling. Termed the NanoGripper, these are DNA-based nanorobotic...

Nanotechnology
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PRISM Technology: E11 Bio’s Road to Cost-Effective Whole-Brain Connectomics

E11 Bio, a pioneer in the field of neuroscience, has developed PRISM, or Photo-connectomic Reconstruction by Iterative Staining with Molecular annotations. PRISM a highly advanced...

AI in Research

How Cornell’s Microscopic Robots Could Revolutionize Imaging

Researchers at Cornell University have come up with the latest creation of revolutionary proportions-the world’s smallest walking robots. Measuring 2 to 5 microns, they traverse...

Basic Research

Nano-pore Ion: Improving Mass Spectroscopy with Direct Ion Delivery

A nano-pore ion source invented at Brown University offers a novel means of producing ions directly in mass spectrometry, which theoretically yields an order of...

Mass Spectrometry
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Custom-Designed TMB Pores a New Phase for Nanopore Technology

Researchers from the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology have pioneered a novel way to design custom transmembrane β-barrel nanopores, for greater control over the size...

Nanotechnology

Bacterial Hair Conducts Electricity and Could Be Used in Bioelectronic Devices

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Holy Cross, and Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that the filaments present in the surface of Geobacter...

Bioengineering
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Nanothermomether Built with DNA

Illustration: istockphotos   Researchers from the University of Montreal have designed a DNA thermometer 20000 times smaller than a human hair. The scientists took advantage...

Basic Research
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A More Precise Nanopore Sequencer Based on Polymer-Tagged Nucleotides

Researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed an advanced real-time, single-molecule nanopore sequencer. In collaboration with Genia Technologies (Roche), Harvard University and the...

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