Thursday, December 17th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_11063" align="alignleft" width="368" caption="Chains of superparamagnetic colloidal particles rotate to produce flows on length scales much larger than the chain dimensions, allowing them to behave like "micro-ants" that can move large particles. Image courtesy of Charles Sing"] [/caption]
From the Wire: A new microscopic system devised by researchers in ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_9578" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Muscle cells that grow on a biological scaffold can connect to severed nerves remaining from a lost limb. Image courtesty of Paul Cederna"][/caption]
From the Wire: Tiny implants that connect to nerve cells could improve control prosthetic limbs, according to an article recently published by Technology ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_8362" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Scientists at MIT have synthesised carbon nanotubes using zirconium oxide."][/caption]
Carbon nanotubes have intrigued material scientists since the 1990s, but the commercial applications of the nanomaterial have been limited. One reason for this, is that the metals used to synthesise nanotubes react unfavourably with materials found in ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_7755" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="A multinational team of researchers have made progress in using single molecule wires as electric conductors. Image courtesy of TU Graz"][/caption]
From the wire. A team of multinational researchers have reported success in using single-molecule wires to conduct electricity between two metal electrodes. According to an abstract ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_5684" align="alignleft" width="404" caption="Diagram shows how a new needle developed at MIT works (from top to bottom): i. Doctor pushes here. ii. Filament buckles and 'locks' inside tube. iii. Additional force advances entire device. iv. Upon penetration of space, filament relaxes inside tube and deploys into space."][/caption]
Each year, hundreds ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
[caption id="attachment_5612" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Professor Angela Belcher holds a device powered by a virus-built battery that she helped engineer. (Image Courtesy of Donna Coveney)"][/caption]
Researchers at MIT have reported that they have genetically engineered viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery. In August of ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_5037" align="alignright" width="220" caption="The above image depicts a polymer material with 20 layers of carbon nanotubes assembled on its surface. Image courtesy: Seung Woo Lee / Journal of the American Chemical Society"][/caption]
A new technique for making thin films of multiwalled carbon nanotubes yields a material with low electrical resistance ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3999" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Taken from MIT’s computer-modeling software, this image shows the arterial drug distribution patterns for three different scenarios of drug release in a single stent. Blood flow in this 3-D simulation is from left to right. Red represents the highest concentration of drug release and blue represents ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3433" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="MIT researchers can trap and fuse pairs of cells using this microchip. (Photo courtesy of MIT)"][/caption]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new way to fuse cells together into one hybrid cell, using a microchip to trap and fuse pairs of cells. ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2779" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="This image shows the cell before hydrogen peroxide is added. Image courtesy of Strano Laboratory"][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2778" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="After hydrogen peroxide is added to the cell, the change in fluorescence enables different molecules to be identified. Image courtesy of Strano Laboratory"][/caption]
Engineers at MIT have developed carbon ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_1674" align="alignleft" width="303" caption="MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach a tiny polymeric patch to immune cells."][/caption]
Researchers at MIT have succeeded in attaching polymer-based patches to cells. Without interfering with the cell’s normal functions, the polymeric “backpacks” can be used to hold tiny amounts of cargo or to ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
MIT researchers are working on ways to modify these gold nanorods so they could be used as drug delivery or anti-tumor devices.
Image Courtesy of Andy Wijaya
Gold nanorods have shown promise in a number of medical applications. For instance, researchers have determined that the tiny gold particles could be used to ...
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