Month: April 2023

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary research team from Bochum and Duisburg has found a new way to detect the important neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain. The researchers used carbon nanotubes for this purpose. In earlier studies, the team led by Professor Sebastian Kruss had already shown that the...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The Yin-Yang theory, an ancient Chinese philosophy, posits that Yin-Yang forces are interdependent and work in opposition to each other to maintain balance. Drawing inspiration from this theory, a research team led by Prof. GUO Xin and Prof. LI Can from the Dalian Institute of...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a useful technique that has been widely utilized in our lives, ranging from reconstructive plastic surgery to artificial organ production. However, many biopolymers, such as nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and proteins, cannot be readily constructed into a desired 3D shape at the...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Last fall, Professor Seokheun “Sean” Choi and his Bioelectronics and Microsystems Laboratory published their research into an ingestible biobattery activated by the Ph factor of the human intestine. Now, he and PhD student Maryam Rezaie have taken what they learned and incorporated it into new...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an electronic patch that can be applied to the leaves of plants to monitor crops for different pathogens – such as viral and fungal infections – and stresses such as drought or salinity. In testing, the researchers...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As artificial intelligence systems play a bigger role in everyday life, they’re changing the world of education, too. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard all come with both risks and opportunities. I am a literacy educator and researcher, and here are four ways I...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in Nature ("Giant magnetoresistance of Dirac plasma in high-mobility graphene"), researchers from The University of Manchester report record-high magnetoresistance that appears in graphene under ambient conditions. Materials that strongly change their resistivity under magnetic fields are highly sought for various applications...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Nerve cells communicate through chemical signals (neurotransmitters), which are converted into electrical signals that pass information from one nerve cell to the next. This is also the way in which the neurons in the brain organoids communicate with each other. "To find the causes of...

Apr 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The field of integrated photonics has taken off in recent years. These microchips utilise light particles (photons) in their circuitry as opposed to the electronic circuits that, in many ways, form the backbone of our modern age. Offering improved performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and novel...

Apr 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) X-ray microscopes have the advantage of penetrating most substances, so internal organs and skeletons can be observed non-invasively through chest X-rays or CT scans. Recently, studies to increase the resolution of X-ray imaging technology are being actively conducted in order to precisely observe the internal...