Month: October 2020

Multidrug resistance (MDR) — a process in which tumors become resistant to multiple medicines — is the main cause of failure of cancer chemotherapy. Tumor cells often acquire MDR by boosting their production of proteins that pump drugs out of the cell, rendering the chemotherapies ineffective. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have developed

IMAGE: Laboratory tests showed film containing silver-silica nanoparticles to be capable of eliminating 99.84% of SARS-CoV-2 particles after exposure for two minutes view more  Credit: Promaflex An adhesive plastic film designed to protect surfaces such as doorknobs, handrails, elevator buttons, and touch screens inactivates the novel coronavirus on contact. The manufacturer of the film is Promaflex.

IMAGE: Live ultrasound footage shows a microrobot tumbling through a colon in vivo. view more  Credit: Purdue University video/Elizabeth Niedert and Chenghao Bi WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models. Why

IMAGE: Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected as a Fellow of the… view more  Credit: Lehigh University Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, has been elected as a Fellow

IMAGE: The National Science Foundation renews the Rice-based Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center, led by Pedro Alvarez, for five years. The Engineering Research Center is dedicated to enabling access to clean… view more  Credit: Rice University HOUSTON – (Oct. 15, 2020) – The Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center (NEWT), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center

IMAGE: Rice University engineer Haotian Wang is named a Packard Fellow, one of 20 researchers in the nation to earn the honor this year. view more  Credit: Rice University HOUSTON – (Oct. 15, 2020) -Haotian Wang of Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering has been honored with a Packard Fellowship, one of 20 researchers in the

IMAGE: Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system, with the goal of studying… view more  Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster In order to make a car run, a car’s engine burns gasoline and converts

IMAGE: Series of nanophotonic resonators, each slightly different in geometry, generates different colors of visible light from the same near-infrared pump laser. view more  Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert invisible near-infrared laser light into any one

IMAGE: Engineers and virologists at the University of Nevada, Reno team up to develop a nanotube-based electrochemical biosensor for COVID-19. Research Scientist Timsy Uppal cultures and assays the virus while post-doctoral… view more  Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, Nev. – Rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in about 30 seconds following the

IMAGE: On-body sensors, such as electrodes and temperature sensors, were directly printed and sintered on the skin surface. view more  Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11479 Wearable electronics are getting smaller, more comfortable and increasingly capable of interfacing with the human body. To achieve a truly seamless integration, electronics could someday