Nanotechnology

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

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Organic Electronics Generate the First Electronic Plants

Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden have created electronic plants. The staff at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics inserted semi-conductive polymers inside living flowers, trees and...

Basic Research

Nanopore Technology Can Identify Pathogen Types

Reseachers from Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Boston University have developed a nanopore that identifies pathogens from their genomic characteristics. The instrument senses single molecules and detects...

Basic Research

Nanopore Technology Could Desalinate Seawater

An ultra-thin sheet of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) could let water molecules pass through tiny nanopores at a high rate while keeping ions and any contaminants. The authors...

Basic Research

3D Nanosculptures Created with Electron Microscopy

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a method to design 3D sculptures at atomic level with an electron microscope. The crystalline structures size...

3D printing

A New Nanopore Sequencer with Graphene Technology

Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new nanopore sequencing method based on graphene nanoribbons that detects double and single stranded DNA in...

Basic Research

A New NanoDrop with Contaminant Identification

Thermo Scientific has released the NanoDrop One and NanoDrop OnecUV-Vis, the last devices from the NanoDrop series of microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometers and fluorospectrometers to measure DNA, RNA and protein...

Equipment
MinION Oxford Nanopore

MinION Sequencer Reproducibility Tested in Depth by Five Labs

Researchers from five labs have tested in depth the performance of the MinION, the sequencer developed by Oxford Nanopore. The labs belong to the MinION Analysis...

Equipment

DNA Nanomachines to Detect Any Antibody

A team of researchers from the Universities of Rome and Montreal have developed a DNA nanomachine customizable to detect any antibody. The nanodevice will allow...

Bioengineering