Sep 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Technologies based on nanoscale materials – for example, particles that are more than 10,000 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence – play a growing role in our world. Carbon nanofibers strengthen airplanes and bicycle frames, silver nanoparticles make bacteria-resistant fabrics,...
New nanoparticle system unleashes the immune system on metastases
Sep 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new nanocomplex renders a tumor harmless – and, on top of that, it trains the immune system to detect and eliminate metastases. An international research team headed by Dr. Johannes Karges of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has...
Novel device combines nanopores with electronic signals for disease detection
Sep 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In living organisms, cells have a very high capacity to process and communicate information by moving molecules or ions through tiny channels that span the cell membrane. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marco Rolandi’s lab and collaborators at MIT have created...
Electronic detection of DNA nanoballs enables simple pathogen detection
Sep 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Karolinska Institute have developed a novel method using DNA Nanoballs to detect pathogens, aiming to simplify nucleic acid testing and revolutionize pathogen detection. The study's results, published in Science Advances ("Digital assay for rapid electronic quantification of clinical pathogens using DNA nanoballs"), could...
Innovative plasmonic nanotweezer rapidly traps potentially cancerous nanosized particles
Sep 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Vanderbilt researchers have developed a way to more quickly, and precisely, trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using a cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezer. The practice by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Chuchuan Hong, a recently graduated Ph.D. student from the...