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IMAGE: Qijun Zhang, a PhD student in the UTIA Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, has placed first in an international student poster competition hosted by the Society of Wood Science… view more  Credit: Photo by K. Keel-Blackmon, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Qijun Zhang, a graduate student studying at the University of Tennessee Center for Renewable

IMAGE: Woman receiving a diagnostic medical scan for head and neck cancer. view more  Credit: Mark_Kostich Shutterstock Although less often the focus of cancer research, recent studies have hinted at the possible importance of a type of protein known as nuclear transport receptors. Now researchers at Kanazawa University and collaborating institutions in Japan and the US

IMAGE: A sheathless acoustic fluorescence activated cell sorting (aFACS) system for isolating fragile biological cells with high cell purity and viability view more  Credit: SUTD Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is a modern cell analysis technique for quantitative detection of physiological, biochemical, immunological, and molecular biological traits of cells – it can further separate a specific

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes. Though the research was intended as a proof of concept, the experimental therapy slowed tumor growth and prolonged survival in mice with

Polymers are used to develop various materials, such as plastics, nylons, and rubbers. In their most basic form, they are made up of many of identical molecules joined together over and over, like a chain. If you engineer molecules to join together in specific ways, you can control the characteristics of the resulting polymer. Using

Artificial Intelligence may be just the thing to accelerate spray-on solar cell technology, which could revolutionize how consumers use energy. A research team at the University of Central Florida used Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence to optimize the materials used to make perovskite solar cells (PSC). The Organic-Inorganic halide perovskites material used in PSC converts

IMAGE: Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks view more  Credit: Erik Zumalt, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants,

From dyes to construction materials, and from cosmetic products to electronics and medicine, nanomaterials are found in many different applications. But what are these materials? “Nanomaterials are defined purely by their size,” explains Dr Kristin Schubert from the Department of Molecular Systems Biology at UFZ. “Materials between one and 100 nanometres in size are referred

Tsukuba, Japan – When you’re only one of trillions, it can be hard to get ahead. That’s the problem faced by aquatic bacterium Leptothrix cholodnii, which is often found in the slime-like microbial mats common to mineral-rich bodies of water. Therefore, to establish itself in these communities, L. cholodnii forms long, rigid filaments that become

200 years ago, a doctor from France used a stethoscope for the first time and countless efforts to observe human body have been made since then. Up to now, the best tool that provides anatomical, functional, and molecular information of human and animal is the photoacoustic microscopy. Super-resolution localization photoacoustic microscopy which is 500 times

IMAGE: The Making of a Quantum Dot “Molecule “. view more  Credit: Meirav Oded and Somnath Koley. Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia’s Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. “I saw in a dream a table where all