Illustration courtesy of Peter Mallen, Harvard Medical school. The biomolecule sorting technique was developed in the laboratory of Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and Professor in the Department of chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Aizenberg is also co-director of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology and a core faculty member at Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, leading the Adaptive Materials Technologies platform there.
The new microfluidic device, described in a paper appearing today in the journal Nature Chemistry,
Anna C. Balazs from the University of Pittsburgh, Aizenberg team conducted proof-of-concept experiments in which they successfully separated thrombin, an enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood
and a high rate of capture of the target molecules, said lead author Ximin He, Assistant professor of Materials science and engineering at Arizona State university and formerly a postdoctoral research fellow in Aizenberg group at Harvard.
In contrast, said Ankita Shastri, a graduate student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard and a member of Aizenberg group,
and Olga Kuksenok from the University of Pittsburgh; Valerie Harris, Hanqing Nan, and Maritza Mujica from Arizona State university;
has been demonstrated recently by a research group at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Vibrant optical colors are generated from ultra-thin single layer silicon films deposited on a thin aluminum film surface with a low cost manufacturing process.
a physical process that results in colors,"says Dr. Junpeng Guo, professor of electrical engineering and optics,
who has published the result with his graduate student, Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan, in a recent issue of Optics Express, vol. 22, issue 25, p. 31545 (2014.
while his student holds a collection of color samples.""And the colors are very durable.
#Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic solid Featuring an Si20 Dodecahedron Goethe University chemists have managed now to synthesise a compound featuring an Si20 dodecahedron.
Matthias Wagner of the Goethe University Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. The Si20 hollow bodies,
which have been isolated by his Phd student, Jan Tillmann, are filled always with a chloride ion. The Frankfurt chemists therefore suppose that the cage forms itself around the anion,
Quantum chemical calculations carried out by Professor Max C. Holthausen's research group at Goethe University show that the substitution pattern that was observed experimentally indeed produces a pronounced stabilisation of the Si20 structure.
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#N1 Technologies Seeks Patent for Nano Engineered Tungstenglass The directors and management of N1 Technologies Inc. have filed just a Patent for a revolutionary nano engineered super glass called"Tungstenglass."
The University of Manchester in Manchester, UK has performed 3d in situ imaging of crack growth using Xradia Ultra Load Stage in nanoindentation mode to understand how cracks grow in dentin, the nanocomposite that forms the bulk of teeth.
Philip Withers, Professor of Materials science and Director of the Manchester Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility, says,
Pia Cosma, group leader and ICREA research professor at the CRG explains, e found that stem cells have a different chromatin structure than somatic (specialised) cells.
How Scientists Built the New Electrodeinspired by previous research on improving conductivity via doping different metal oxide materials, Singh and Kalyan Mandal, another researcher and a professor at the S n. Bose
Photo by Anurag Mathur, Healy Lab) Instead, the research team led by bioengineering professor Kevin Healy is presenting a network of pulsating cardiac muscle cells housed in an inch-long silicone device that effectively models human heart tissue,
a postdoctoral scholar in Healy lab and a California Institute for Regenerative medicine fellow. e designed this system
a postdoctoral scholar in Healy lab and a California Institute for Regenerative medicine fellow. e designed this system
medics and students all around the world will be enabled to travel inside 3d cells in full color by simply downloading STEVE on their laptop"says Nanolive CEO Yann Cotte.
these systems often get clogged during use due to accumulation of materials and fouling, and are also not energy efficient over long periods of use.
a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS), has developed an entirely new,
Aizenberg, who is also Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Harvard's Faculty of arts and Sciences and Co-Director of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology
who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS."
a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.
A method currently being developed by a team of computer scientists from Saarbrücken in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the USA may provide a solution to this problem.
a Phd student in the team led by Jürgen Steimle at the Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University.
and the Washington University School of medicine, will benefit patients in the U s.,where 12 percent of the population,
said Tony Jun Huang, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State and the inventor, with his group, of this and other acoustofluidic devices based on ultrasonic waves. or instance,
Po-Hsun Huang, a graduate student in the Huang group and the first author on the recent paper describing the device in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip,
This research was supported by the American Asthma Foundation Scholar Award the National Science Foundation, and the NHLBI Division of Intramural Research.
Besides Chen, the other cofounder is Richard Mathies, a UC Berkeley chemistry professor and world-renowned expert on Raman spectroscopy.
reducing its accumulation in tumors. Many molecular packaging systems have been developed to deliver the drug while counteracting these effects, with a protein-bound version of the drug called Abraxane currently the leading therapy.
professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Duke university, thought his team could do better.
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.
says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering, who has a joint appointment in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering. e came up with the method serendipitously,
an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who was involved not in this work. o me,
and Chang An Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing and Junjie Niu, Kangpyo So, and Chao Wang of MIT.
and environmental concerns, said Nidia Trejo, a Cornell doctoral student in the field of fiber science. Trejo, who with Margaret Frey, professor of fiber science, authored the study, comparative study on electrosprayed, layer-by-layer,
and chemically grafted nanomembranes loaded with iron oxide nanoparticles, in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, July 14.
Researchers in professor Margaret Frey lab create fibers hundreds of times thinner than a human hair that can capture toxic chemicals and pathogens.
Frey and her students have encapsulated pesticides into biodegradable nanofibers. This keeps them intact until needed
build upon decades of previous research at Stanford university, Stanford School of medicine and SLAC. Researchers reported their latest findings today in the journal Nature."
He is a professor at Stanford School of medicine and SLAC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator."
a professor at Yale university who discovered the SNARE proteins and shared the 2013 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Thomas C. Südhof, a professor at the Stanford School of medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who shared that 2013 Nobel prize with Rothman,
researchers in Brunger's laboratory at the Stanford School of medicine found a way to grow crystals of the complex.
#Researchers Apply Nanopore Gene Sequencing to Proteins University of Pennsylvania researchers have made strides toward a new method of gene sequencing a strand of DNA bases are read as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole.
The study was led by Marija Drndic, a professor in the School of arts & Sciencesdepartment of Physics & Astronomy;
and Jeffery G. Saven, a professor in Penn Arts & Sciencesdepartment of Chemistry. It was published in the journal ACS Nano.
Saven said. ee interested in learning about the structure of a given protein, such as whether it exists as a monomer,
An international team of researchers, led by Dr Munitta Muthana from the University of Sheffield's Department of Oncology,
Dr Munitta Muthana, from the University of Sheffield, said:""Our results suggest that it is possible to use a standard MRI SCANNER to naturally deliver cell-based therapies to both primary and secondary tumours
Gustafsson and graduate student Hesper Rego had achieved higher-resolution SIM with a variation called saturated depletion nonlinear SIM
The University of Colorado approach promises quantitative full-field imaging with as much as a 20x improvement in spatial resolution,
said Margaret Murnane, professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Colorado,
the wavelength of widely accessible lasers has been reduced by less than a factor of 4. The University of Colorado work employs coherent,
the University of Colorado team plans to demonstrate in the next two to five years coherent EUV and X-ray microscopes that produce real-time movies of functioning materials with less than 5 nm lateral
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, describes the research in a paper published today in Science. his is a surprisingly simple way to make amorphous nanoparticles from almost any material,
Esther Amstad, a former postdoctoral fellow in Weitzlab and current assistant professor at EPFL in Switzerland.
Christian Holtze, Chinedum O. Osuji, Michael P. Brenner, the Glover Professor of Applied mathematics and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics,
and Frans Spaepen, the John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics. It was supported by the National Science Foundation,
Hisanori Shinohara from Nagoya University in Japan and his colleagues have developed a method that uses carbon nanotubes as a reaction vessel for the templated polymerization of linear-chain nanomaterials.
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,
#Nanoporous Gold Sponge Detects Pathogens Faster A team of researchers from University of California, Davis has proved that nucleic acids can be detected using nanoporous gold,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,
By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California, Berkeley, have taken a big step in that direction.
Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry at Berkeley and co-director of the school's Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute, leads a team that has created an artificial leaf that produces methane
Moore is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State university, where he previously headed the Center for Bioenergy & Photosynthesis. Ultimately,
or literally,"said Ted Sargent, the vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Applied science and Engineering at University of Toronto.
"Instead, it is about learning nature's guidelines, its rules on how to make a compellingly efficient and selective catalyst,
''said Martin Yarmush, the Paul and Mary Monroe Chair and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers and Ghodbane's adviser.
#Translational Grant for Interaction Study of Laser radiation with Circulating Tumor Cells and Melanin Nanoparticles University of Arkansas for Medical sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph d.,D. Sc.
Zharov is director of the Arkansas Nanomedicine Center at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Otolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery.
and Neck Surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine UAMS is the state only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health professions and Public health;
a graduate school; a hospital; a northwest Arkansas regional campus; a statewide network of regional centers;
UAMS has 2, 890 students and 782 medical residents. It is the state largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees,
Now, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder has devised a novel optical technique--a combination of structured illumination microscopy (SIM
. and Mark Winey, Ph d.,at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The study was funded by the Stowers Institute and the National institutes of health (Mark Winey, P01 GM105537;
2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.
scientists at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill have created smarter immune cells that produce and deliver a healing protein to the brain
The researchers, led by Elena Batrakova, an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery,
developed by engineers at the University of California, San diego, are capable of delivering drugs to targeted sites in the body--particularly injured blood vessels,
"said Liangfang Zhang, a nanoengineering professor at UC San diego and the senior author of the study."
"said Shu Chien, a professor of bioengineering and medicine, director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San diego,
#Coated Silica Nanoparticles Could be used for Restorative Treatment of Sensitive Teeth Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shown how the development of coated silica nanoparticles could be used in restorative treatment of sensitive teeth
Professor Damien Walmsley, from the School of dentistry at the University of Birmingham explained,"The dentine of our teeth have numerous microscopic holes,
Professor Zoe Pikramenou, from the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, said, "These silica particles are available in a range of sizes, from nanometre to sub-micron,
#Novel Nano-Dispenser Systems Uses Less Insecticide to Kill Citrus Greening Bugs Researchers with the University of Florida and several other institutions have found a way in laboratory tests to use
Lukasz Stelinski, an associate professor with UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, used a commercial formulation of imidacloprid,
said Stelinski, who works at the Citrus Research and Education Center, a unit in the University of Florida Institute of food and agricultural sciences. hey have opened a new era in delivery of pesticides through the development of micro and nanosize controlled release systems.
Polymer molecules are being employed for these nano-dispenser systems because scientists can change their size,
Other members of the team include Wendy Meyer with UF entomology and nematology department at CREC, Pablo Gurman, with the University of Texas at Dallasdepartment of Materials science and engineering,
a University of Nebraska-Lincoln physics and astronomy professor who worked on the research. It also contradicts the expected behavior of ferroelectric materials,
and switchable polarization had occurred in ultrathin films of strontium titanate grown by a University of Wisconsin team led by Chang-Beom Eom.
Physicists at the University of Wisconsin, however fabricated epitaxial films of strontium titanate, spread across a substrate of the same material, no thicker than the size of these polar nanoregions.
The paper is authored co by the UNL postdoctoral researcher Haidong Lu and research assistant professor Tula Paudel.
Others involved in the work included Penn State university, Korea Institute of Materials science, Temple University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, University of California-Santa barbara and Boise State university n
said Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a member of UCLA California Nanosystems Institute, is published Sept. 21 in the online edition of the journal Nature Materials.
Wolfgang Theis of the University of Birmingham; Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel and Hendrik Heinz of the University of Akron;
and Laurence Marks of Northwestern University. This work was supported primarily by the U s. Department of energy Office of Basic energy Sciences (grant DE-FG02-13er46943 and contract DE-AC025CH11231
#Chemists Use DNA Molecules to Design Rapid and Inexpensive Medical Diagnostic Tests Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid, inexpensive medical
diagnostic tests that take only a few minutes to perform. Their findings, which will officially be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Chemical Society,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
says Professor Bettina Lotsch of the Department of chemistry at LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
#Using Defects in Liquid crystals to Create New Materials A team of engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has demonstrated a versatile fabrication method to use defects in liquid crystals as small tubing,
"says Nicholas Abbott, a UW-Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering.""It's quite a versatile approach."
"Abbott and his team at the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at University of Wisconsin, Madison, have so far been successful in assembling phospholipids within imperfections in liquid crystals.
"The research team consisted of Xiaoguang Wang, Daniel S. Miller and Emre Bukusoglu graduate students from UW-Madison,
and Juan J. de Pablo former engineering professor at UW-Madison, currently at the University of Chicago.
#Self-Assembled DNA NANOSTRUCTURES Could Be used as Smart Drug-Delivery Vehicles Researchers from Aalto University have published an article in the recent Trends in Biotechnology journal.
the researchers from Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä have shown recently how DNA origamis can be used in efficient fabrication of custom-shaped metal nanoparticles that could be used in various fields of material sciences.
Groundbreaking approach to create nanomaterials The research group lead by Professor Mauri Kostiainen works extensively with DNA NANOSTRUCTURES,
"said senior author Holger Schmidt, the Kapany Professor of Optoelectronics at UC Santa cruz.""We're detecting the nucleic acids directly,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
According to the lead researcher, Professor Trevor Lithgow, from the newly launched Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia,
Professor Lithgow and his team used a novel technology that enables the systematic expansion of the genetic codes of living organisms to include unnatural amino acids beyond the common twenty.
Professor Lithgow and lead researcher Dr. Takuya Shiota from the BDI focused on the TOM protein complex
According to Professor Lithgow TOM 40 has resisted all attempts, using x-ray crystallography and other standard techniques in structural biology to unlock its transport secrets.
Having shown the technology works-Professor Lithgow believes other labs working on diverse processes in human cell biology will mimic these experiments to determine how their chosen nanomachines operate.
The research is the culmination of more than 15 years work by Professor Lithgow, from the newly launched Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University.
He started working on the process of how proteins and other molecules enter into mitochondria as a postdoctoral researcher for the Human Frontiers Science Program in Basel,
According to Professor John Carroll, Director of the BDI, the research is a great example of the interdisciplinary approach that will be the hallmark of the Institute."
Now researchers led by Professor Heinrich Leonhardt at LMU's Biocenter and Professor Christian Hackenberger of the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin have developed a new strategy that permits specific chemical modification of virtually any protein more rapidly
and more efficiently than was hitherto possible. Their results appear in the new edition of the journal Angewandte Chemie.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTECH), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR),
. a professor of circuits and systems and biomedical engineering expert who is the Director of Virtus, the Centre of Excellence in IC Design, at NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic engineering."
who is also a professor of radiology, neuroscience, pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
#Quantity, Dimensions of Carbon black Nanoparticles Crucial for Lithium-Ion Battery Function A Stanford undergraduate has contributed to a discovery that confounds the conventional wisdom in lithium-ion battery design,
The undergraduate was part of a 10-person research team led by William Chueh, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
Graduate student Yiyang Li and undergraduate Sophie Meyer led the collaborative effort to design experiments that disproved an assumption shared by battery designers for more than 20 years:
a Phd student who plans to become a professor, for supervising Meyer over two years of experiments that included the construction of scores of batteries from scratch
and that is very unusual for an undergraduate to do,"Chueh said, noting that the experiments epitomized Stanford's dual emphasis on cutting-edge science and training the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Li reflected on the two-year-long process of experimentation with characteristic engineering aplomb and understatement."
"Meyer, who is pursuing her co-terminal master's degree in materials science and engineering, said it was the hardest work she ever loved."
"Other Stanford team members included postdoctoral scholars Jongwoo Lim and Sang Chul Lee and chemistry graduate student William Gent.
and swells considerably in the process, explained Pirmin Ganter, doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the Chemistry department at LMU Munich.
the users would then receive visible feedback to their finger motionexplained Katalin Szendrei, also a doctoral student in Bettina Lotsch group.
researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic
A team led by Cockrell School of engineering associate professor Christopher Ellison found that a synthetic coating of polydopamine--derived from the natural compound dopamine--can be used as a highly effective, water-applied flame retardant for polyurethane foam.
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Vallée-Bélisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
but we are looking forward to improve our sensing platform even more"said Simona Ranallo, a Phd student in the group of Prof.
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
SUNY Polytechnic institute Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) today announced a team of SUNY Poly CNSE researchers,
including two graduate students, has developed a unique, optics-based tracking sensor for the amboxx, a harmonica-like device created by My Music Machines,
After hearing about SUNY Poly CNSE Professor and Head of the Nanobioscience Constellation Dr. Jim Castracane research related to novel sensors, the Jamboxx creators connected with Dr. Castracane who found that a Self
but a powerful learning opportunity for two SUNY Poly CNSE graduate students who were able to put their skills to the test
A young investigator group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, led by Professor Martina Schmid, is inquiring how to use arrangements of such nanoparticles to improve solar cells and other optoelectronic devices.
Shiladitya Dassarma's laboratory at the University of Maryland School of medicine, Baltimore, USA, who has developed Archaeal gas vesicle nanoparticles (GVNPS.
Dassarma, Phd, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the school,"GVNPS offer a designer platform for vaccines
a graduate student at TIFR who conducted these experiments. Efforts are focused now at developing this into an effective vaccine against malaria a
associate professor of bioengineering. any systems which work for point-of-care applications have quite expensive cartridges.
One of Tkaczyk co-authors on the research was Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice Malcolm Gillis University Professor, director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering and of Rice 360°:
These studies were performed by an international group of collaborators led by Professor H.-S. Philip Wong and Pop.
#Prosthetic Hands with Macro-Sieve Peripheral Nerve Interface Can Feel Hot and Cold and Sense of touch Daniel Moran, Phd, professor of biomedical engineering in the School of engineering & Applied science and of neurobiology,
of physical therapy and of neurological surgery at the School of medicine, has received a three-year, nearly $1. 9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test a novel device his lab developed that would stimulate the nerves in the upper arm and forearm.
which includes Harold Burton, Phd, professor of neurobiology; Wilson (Zach) Ray, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, both at the School of medicine;
and Matthew Macewen, who will graduate with an MD/Phd in May 2015 and worked on this project for his dissertation,
and what the nervous system can interpret with artificial sensation. he School of engineering & Applied science at Washington University in St louis focuses intellectual efforts through a new convergence paradigm and builds on strengths,
With 91 tenured/tenure-track and 40 additional full-time faculty, 1, 300 undergraduate students, more than 900 graduate students and more than 23
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