Engineering at the nanoscale – DNA nanostructures, nanomaterials and the instruments built to manipulate matter atom by atom.
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A new kind of hybrid polymer could be used for self-repairing materials, drug delivery and artificial muscles. The polymer, developed by researchers at Northwestern University, features removable...
A team of scientists from Japan and the US led by the University of Tokyo have developed an ultra-thin pressure sensor that could be used...
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center have successfully delivered small-RNA drugs to a cancerous liver by introducing them in synthetic nanoparticles. The...
American startup Nanopore Diagnostics has raised $600000 to develop The iNDxer, a device to detect bacterial infections. The money, provided by the Missouri Technology Corporation...
Nanopore sequencing technology could be faster and more accurate, according to a simulation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the recently developed...
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the University of Minnesota have developed a technique that accelerates nanopore single-molecule detection 1000 fold. Single-molecule dielectrophoretic trapping,...
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative cell-free protein synthesis system based on microfabricated reactors that produce therapeutic...
A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a system to release anesthesia locally upon irradiation. Drug administration...
