An ‘artificial DNA’ in which the two natural DNA base pairs have been replaced by two non-natural base pairs may provide useful new nanotech building blocks.
Scientists have continued progress toward the goal of nanotech membranes for water purification that will greatly decrease the energy cost for desalination.
A nanotech replacement for virus vectors offers a safer way to introduce DNA into cells for gene therapy.
A discovery of unexpected properties of an insulating layer only a few atoms thick may lead to a new nanotech approach to faster computers.
A nanotech formulation may have saved one of the most promising broad-spectrum antiangiogenesis cancer therapies from being side-tracked due to neurotoxic side effects.
A novel nanotech procedure produces metal nanostructures containing uniform hexagonal pores about 10 nm across that could supply new catalysts, faster metal wires for microchips, and better optical materials.
Antibody-coated carbon nanotubes only bind to cancer cells targeted by the antibody, and irradiation with near-infrared light causes the bound carbon nanotubes to heat up and kill the cancer cells.
A major nanotech advance in engineering multifunctional nanoparticles for imaging and therapeutic applications combines a short RNA (siRNA) to “silence” a specific gene with quantum dots and a “proton sponge” polymer coating to get the siRNA into the cell and released into the right compartment of the cell.
Millimeter-scale nanotech structures self-assembled from hybrid nanowires can sense and respond to external stimuli.
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