Tag: chemistry
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RNA Nanoparticles Advanced for Cancer Drug Delivery
Medical researchers at University of Kentucky and University of Nebraska developed nanoscale particles using RNA to deliver cancer drugs that could bind to and regulate cells in mice without harming other tissue. The results of the research carried out in the the lab of Kentucky’s Peixuan Guo (pictured right) appear in the August issue of…
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Methods Developed to Detect, Remove Ice from Aircraft Wings
Engineers at two Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany are devising new solutions for dealing with ice accumulating on aircraft wings in flight, a serious safety concern. The technologies developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability in Darmstadt and Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials in Bremen will be discussed at the…
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Nanotech Solution Could Block Laser Beams from Aircraft
Researchers at University of Central Florida in Orlando and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh created a new material based on nanotechnology that could keep lasers from affecting aircraft pilots and sensitive equipment. Optical science professor Jayan Thomas of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center (pictured right) led the team, which published its findings last month in…
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EU Grant Funds Research on Programmable Chemical Systems
The European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme is funding a project to build autonomous self-assembling electronic microreagents that can exchange chemical and electronic information. Biochemistry professor John McCaskill at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany (pictured left) with colleagues at Bochum and teams from Europe, Israel, and New Zealand, will take part in the three-year, €3.4 million…
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New Process Simplifies Protein Production for Drug Companies
A chemical engineer at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville developed a new method for producing high quality proteins used in drugs for treating an assortment of disorders. Doctoral candidate Ellen Brune (pictured right) also founded a company, Boston Mountain Biotech, to commercialize the technology. Current industry methods for protein manufacturing require separating out the background…
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Lasers Employed to Created Precise Molecular Designs
Researchers in materials science and chemistry at Vienna University of Technology in Austria devised a method to place living molecules to grow tissue in precise locations on three-dimensional surfaces. The teams led by Vienna materials scientist Jürgen Stampfl and macromolecular chemist Robert Liska published their findings last week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials (paid…
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Electronic Nanotech Sensors Added to Bioengineered Tissue
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Boston Children’s Hospital developed a way to embed nanoscale electronic sensors in engineered tissues. The team of medical researchers and engineers published their findings yesterday online in the journal Nature Materials (paid subscription required). The study addressed the need to better monitor bioengineered tissues as well…
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Researchers Designing New Drug for Chronic Pain
An interdisciplinary team from University of Liverpool and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the U.K. started research to design a new drug for the treatment of chronic pain. The £1.4 million ($US 2.22 million) grant for the project was awarded by the Medical Research Council, a supporter of medical research in the U.K., backed…
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Process Developed for Stronger Alloys at High Temperatures
Materials scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a process for growing and merging nanoscale metallic crystals to create alloys that can withstand the stress of high temperatures. MIT graduate students Tongjai Chookajorn and Heather Murdoch (pictured left), with faculty advisor Christopher Schuh, discuss their methods in this week’s issue of the journal Science; paid…
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Nanotech Sensor Detects Glucose for Diabetes Testing
Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana created a non-invasive biosensor that detects minute concentrations of glucose in saliva, tears, and urine. The team at Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center published its findings this week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials (paid subscription required). The sensor has three main parts: layers of nanosheets resembling tiny rose petals…