Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Cancers in humans have all sorts of ways to survive and thrive: Cells and tumors alike engage in devious means to deflect, deceive, and evade detection by our bodies’ immune systems. Take how they fend off anti-cancer vaccines, for example. Cancer cells in the body,...
Silk offers an alternative to some microplastics
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Microplastics, tiny particles of plastic that are now found worldwide in the air, water, and soil, are increasingly recognized as a serious pollution threat, and have been found in the bloodstream of animals and people around the world. Some of these microplastics are intentionally added...
All-in-one solar-powered tower makes carbon-neutral jet fuel
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have designed a fuel production system that uses water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. They have implemented the system in the field, and the design, publishing in the journal Joule ("A solar tower fuel plant for the thermochemical production of...
Engineers develop new tool that will allow for more personalized cell therapies
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, developed a new tool to predict and customize the rate of a specific kind of DNA editing called “site-specific recombination.” The research paves the way for more personalized, efficient genetic and cell therapies...
A new method to detect exoplanets
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single ‘normal’ stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and New York...
Using artificial intelligence to train teams of robots to work together
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When communication lines are open, individual agents such as robots or drones can work together to collaborate and complete a task. But what if they aren’t equipped with the right hardware or the signals are blocked, making communication impossible? University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers started...
Rewriting the history of K-carbon fiber manufacturing with carbon nanotubes
Jul 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A space elevator, a technology connecting the Earth’s surface to a space station, would allow for the cost-efficient transport of people and materials. However, a very light yet strong material is essential to making such a technology a reality. The carbon nanotube is a material...
Chiral sources for metamaterial interface waveguides
Jul 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metamaterial interface waveguides can confine and guide electromagnetic (EM) waves, which has attractive potential in integrated photonics physics and wireless devices, from radio frequencies to optical bands. The energy flow in waveguides can be fully controlled by sorting the near-field light waves according to their...