Filament-shaped artificial viruses show promise in delivering genetic materials and other molecules into cultured human cells.
Chinese scientists have recently built an atomically precise structure directed by bonds between gold atoms—a crown of 36 gold atoms coordinating surrounding organic molecules.
Current nanotech capabilities have been incorporated into a proposed architecture for medical nanorobots to control epidemic diseases.
A nanotech barcode could revolutionize medical diagnostics by providing a very sensitive method of counting individual messenger RNA molecules.
Nanotech materials useful for a wide variety of applications may result from the discovery that adding very small amounts of graphene to polymers greatly increases the desirable properties of the polymers.
A nanotech approach to overcoming the resistance of some cancer cells to radiation therapy has been successfully tested in mice.
The safe commercialization of nanotech will require special attention to the manufacture and disposal of materials using carbon nanotubes.
Nanowires of indium phosphide grown directly on an electrode greatly increase the flow of electrons through a polymer film to the electrode.
Arizona State University chemists have demonstrated a nanotech version of molecular self-regulation by designing a molecule that mimics the way in which plants defend themselves from an overload of sunshine.
In an application of nanotechnology to medicine, a nanotech material has been produced that self-assembles in the presence of bodily fluids into highly hydrated fibers that stop bleeding within 15 seconds.
