Researchers combine nanoplasmonic architectures and interferometry to bring nanoscale biosensors to near-commercial levels of sensitivity.
Health
Understanding staph's relationship with nanostructures
Berkeley Lab-led research could guide the development of bacteria-resistant materials.
Nanoparticles enable eye drops for macular degeneration treatment
Drugs used to treat blindness-causing disorders could be successfully administered by eye drops rather than unpleasant and expensive eye injections.
A better gel for cutaneous recording
A new, quasi-solid-state electrode which is suitable for long term cutaneous recording has been reported by French scientists.
More efficient forging – on behalf of the EU
The German-based IPH is optimizing forging together with two other research institutes and four enterprises from five European countries.
Book review: Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering
SUNY professor Balaji Sitharaman reviews Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering.
Book Review: Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
Professor Bengt Fadeel of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet reviews Nanomaterials for Medical Applications by Zoraida Aguilar.
Engineering materials to inhibit the immune response
A research team have coated biomaterial surfaces with a naturally expressed molecule that inhibit the inflammatory activation of immune cells.
NIST publishes new standards for bioscaffolds based on cell shapes
Scientists create method to classify how cells are shaped in different environments.
Integrating electronics with cells to detect bacteria
Device made of organic transistor integrated with a human intestinal cell-line successfully detects Salmonella typhimurium.
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