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·February 28, 2021·2 min read

Nanoparticles Help Untangle Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid Beta Plaques

Amyloid plaques can cling to newly developed bowl-shaped nanoparticles. The findings provide a new way to study the Alzheimer's related plaques and provides novel treatment options for dementia.

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·June 5, 2019·3 min read

Nanotechnology treatment reverses multiple sclerosis in mice

Extracting nanosized exosomes from bone marrow stem cells and injecting them into mice, researchers reverse symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

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·February 28, 2019·5 min read

Nanotech Makes it Possible for Mice to See In Infrared

Researchers use nanotech to enhance vision in mice, enabling them to see infrared light as well as visible light.

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·May 18, 2018·4 min read

Robotic Assembly of the World’s Smallest House

Using a system dubbed μRobotex system, researchers have created a microhouse so small a mite can not fit through the front door. Researchers say the creation pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies.

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·February 8, 2018·3 min read

First Hybrid Nanotech Device Mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier

Researchers have use nanotechnology to develop a 1:1 scale model of the blood-brain barrier.

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·December 18, 2017·6 min read

Nanotubes Go With the Flow to Penetrate Brain Tissue

A new device that uses fast flowing fluids to insert nanotubes into the brain may be used to help treat a number of neurological diseases, researchers say.

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·November 25, 2017·4 min read

Nanobots Pass First Stage in “Fantastic Voyage” From Fiction to Fact

An international team of researchers have created remote controlled nanobots from a biodegradable material that they believe could assist doctors in diagnosing diseases and delivering drugs to target sites.

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·November 16, 2017·2 min read

Nanowired Drugs Could Treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Patients

Using titanate nanowires treated with cerebrolysin, researchers have been able to target delivery to the brain and through the central nervous system. Researchers report the use of nanowires to deliver drugs could be beneficial in the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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·August 1, 2017·7 min read

Programming Cells With Computer Like Logic

Researchers engineer an RNA molecule into a programmable and logically acting Ribocomputing device. The study may help researchers construct more sophisticated synthetic biological circuits.

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·June 20, 2016·4 min read

Artificial Synapses Rivals Biological Ones in Energy Consumption

A newly developed artificial synapse could have implications for use in AI computing.

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·November 19, 2015·5 min read

Nanocarriers Cross Blood-Brain Barrier to Transport Brain Cancer Drugs

A new nanocarrier meets the size and stability to effectively pass the BBB and deliver drugs to glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer.

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·November 17, 2015·4 min read

Luminescent Nanoparticles Image Brain Function

Researchers are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials that could enable the mapping of the complex neural connections in the brain.