POSTS TAGGED AS nanotechnology

An Artificial Photoreceptor in the Eye

Photoreceptor for the Eye
Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have created an artificial photoreceptor that restored vision in blind mice. [MORE]

Lab-on-Skin Technology

Microfluidic Lab-on-Skin
As this piece says, “Of all the mobile devices designed to support medical care, no technology may have more [MORE]

Nanowire Brush Collects Cancer Biomarkers in Urine

Extracellular Vesicle Capture
Last week, we had a piece from Aalto University in Finland about a plasmonic biosensor that detects exosomes [MORE]

Unintended Sensor Discovery

DNA Detection Device
Imagine a combination electrophoresis box, nanopore sequencer and microfluidics device all in a very, very tiny package and [MORE]

Making Gold Nanoparticles that Behave as One

Ultramonodisperse Gold Nanorods that Behave as Clones
Quoting directly: “A special laser system is able to induce billions of gold nanoparticles [MORE]

DNA Robots

LQian Cargo Sorting DNA Robot
In the 64 years that scientists have known about the structure of DNA, enormous knowledge has [MORE]

A Hydroelectric Power Plant in Your Blood Vessels

Blood Vessel
Bioengineers at Fudan University (Shanghai) have built what they call a “fiber shaped fluidic nanogenerator” which is small enough [MORE]

Quantum Dot Biosensors

Quantum Dots
Quantum dots are silicon semiconductor particles that emit specific light frequencies when electricity or light is applied to them. [MORE]

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and a NIR Laser

Gold Nanorods
Japanese scientists have used lipid coated gold nanorods to deliver a gene vector, which when heated with a near [MORE]

Hand-Held DNA Sequencer Widely Adopted

MinION Sequencer
Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Science Park, UK) has had threats of patent infringement against its MinION, after which the [MORE]

Europium-Doped Gadolinium Oxide Nanorods for Imaging and Therapy

Imaging Cancer
Reporting in the journal NANO, Indian chemists describe how they made silica-coated europium-doped gadolinium oxide nanorods for dual imaging [MORE]

3-D Printing for Complex Blood Vessel Formations

3D Printing Blood Vessels
“Nanoengineers have 3-D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial [MORE]

Nano Magnets for Thawing Frozen Tissues

It has long been known that freezing tissues, such as arteries, extends their “shelf life” for transplantation, but problems arise [MORE]

Propelling Nanorobots by Enzyme Action or Ultrasound

Dr. Sámuel Sánchez Nanorobot Researcher
Injectable robots—sometimes called microswimmers—raise two sorts of engineering problems: design of the device itself, and its [MORE]