Month: December 2019

Wilmington, DE, Dec. 6, 2019 -Amidst rising hopes for using CRISPR gene editing tools to repair deadly mutations linked to conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, a new study in the Nature journal Communications Biology describes a new innovation that could accelerate this work by rapidly revealing unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced

IMAGE: High-resolution 3D pHe mapping of living melanoma cells with feedback-controlled double-barrel SICM-pH nanoprobe. The 3D SICM topographical images (left column) and 3D pHe distributions (right column) of low-buffered living melanoma… view more  Credit: Kanazawa University “It is becoming clear that an acid extracellular pH plays an essential role in cancer cell progression, invasiveness and resistance

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at The University of Tokyo introduced a new physical model that predicts the dynamics of glassy materials based solely on their local degree of atomic structural order. Using computer simulations, they showed how this theory greatly improves our understanding of how glassy liquids become more viscous on cooling. This work has

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2019 — Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, at https://bit.ly/33Hd9TD. The meeting will be held March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia. Each ACS national meeting and exposition attracts 11,000-16,000 chemists, chemical

IMAGE:  “We have learned that magnetic nanoparticles can receive magnetic fields and translate them into signals that neurons can understand. ” GABRIELA ROMERO URIBE, UTSA Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering… view more  Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor

IMAGE: Associate Professor Farshad Moradi from the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, is heading the project. view more  Credit: Peer Klercke The cost of corrosion runs to 3-4 per cent of the gross world product (GWP) annually, and therefore there is increasing international focus on monitoring infrastructure projects. The Department of Engineering at Aarhus University is

IMAGE: (a) Scanning electron micrograph of the measured Superconductor(Nb)/Normal metal (Ag)/ Superconductor(Nb) Josephson junction. (b) Color-coded sketch of the normalized energy-phase dependent density of states of a long diffusive SNS junction…. view more  Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the forefront of interest

IMAGE: Jose Cortez of NASA Ames (left) and Joel Contreras of UPAEP (right), conduct final integration of AzTechSat-1 into the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) in preparation for launch to the International… view more  Credit: NASA The first satellite built by students in Mexico for launch from the International Space Station is smaller than a shoebox but

Conditioning is a method made famous by Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. Pavlov trained a dog by ringing a bell every time the dog was fed. The dog learned to associate the bell with food, and then drooled when it heard the bell ring, even if it didn’t see anything to eat. In an earlier

IMAGE: Peptoid nanosheets are a single layer of crystals made from the spontaneous stacking of peptoid chains into parallel rows. Individual nanosheets floating in water were rapidly frozen and imaged by… view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules called “polypeptoids” (or “peptoids,” for short) have great promise as precision building blocks for creating a variety of

IMAGE: A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water and oxygen molecules in the… view more  Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and

IMAGE: CaZrSe3 in the distorted orthorhombic perovskite phase depicted from the (a) side view and (b) top view. view more  Credit: Ganesh Balasubramanian, Eric Osei-Agyemang and Challen Enninful Adu For solar cells to be widely used in the coming decades researchers must resolve two major challenges: increasing efficiency and lowering toxicity. Solar energy works through a

IMAGE: This is a zoomed-in SEM image of nanopillars of the metalens. view more  Credit: (Image courtesy of Joon-Suh Park/Harvard SEAS) Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size

New York University Professor David Grier, who has pioneered technologies for organizing and probing matter with computational holography, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced today. “The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that

The properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting a great deal of interest, and one of the reasons is their catalytic activity. In particular, better catalysts are needed to exploit the potential of water electrolysis – splitting water into its component elements – to provide sustainable energy storage. “MoS2 is one of the most