Dec 19, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Phase transitions have long been of crucial importance to scientific research. The change from water to ice or steam is a simple example. A phase transition important to pioneering research today is that from metal to insulator in materials referred to as "'correlated oxides'. Scientists...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Nanopores can identify the amino acids in proteins, the first step to sequencing
Home > Press > Nanopores can identify the amino acids in proteins, the first step to sequencingAbstract:While DNA sequencing is a useful tool for determining whats going on in a cell or a persons body, it only tells part of the story. Protein sequencing could soon give researchers a wider...
Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record
Dec 18, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Keeping track of a childs shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues. Kevin McHugh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice since this summer, and a team at his previous institution, the Massachusetts Institute...