‘Tattooing’ living tardigrades with nanoscale patterns

Apr 24, 2025 New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological systems with technology for sensing and monitoring. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The merging of engineered microscopic patterns with living organisms promises to revolutionize medicine, environmental monitoring, and biological research. Imagine microscopic markers that...

Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation

Apr 24, 2025 Nanophotonic platform enables single-photon nonlinear quantum communication, solving efficiency barriers that hindered previous implementation attempts. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past...

FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer

Apr 24, 2025 Using their novel Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for the printing of soft living cells and tissues, researchers built a first-of-its-kind microphysiologic system, or tissue model, entirely out of collagen. (Nanowerk News) Collagen is well-known as an important component of...