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Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.
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A new physical form of proteins developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin could drastically improve treatments for cancer and other diseases, as well as overcome some of the largest challenges in therapeutics: delivering drugs to patients safely, easily and more effectively.
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St. John, Ph.D., a researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
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(PhysOrg.com) — The best performing solar cells are those that are thick enough to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, while the cheapest solar cells are thin ones, since they require less, and potentially cheaper, material. In an attempt to combine the best of both worlds, a team of scientists has outlined designs for [...]
(PhysOrg.com) — By tweaking the smallest of parts, a trio of University at Buffalo engineers is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar cells convert into electricity.
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Publisher’s note: Adherence to TB drugs is an major issue.
US technology firm Proteus Biomedical has launched a smart pill with an integrated microchip that tracks patients’ adherence to their medication.
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Innovations in the fields of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology have far reaching implications for African countries than one would normally think. During the past decade and for several more to come, breakthroughs in these fields have had a huge impact on Africa.For these reasons we report on developments within these fields.
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Bionanoscience: Nanoparticles in the life of a cell
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 9 (2012).
doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.207
Author: Huw Summers
The cycle of cell birth, growth and division can affect the uptake and dilution of nanoparticles in cells, suggesting that the evolution of nanoparticle dose within a cell population is linked to the life cycle of [...]
The properties and applications of nanodiamonds
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 11 (2012).
doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.209
Authors: Vadym N. Mochalin, Olga Shenderova, Dean Ho & Yury Gogotsi
McGill researchers develop a new and inexpensive way of filtering water using silver nanoparticles
Disasters such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes often result in the spread of diseases like gastroenteritis, giardiasis and even cholera because of an immediate shortage of clean drinking water. Now, chemistry researchers at McGill University have taken a key step towards [...]
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