A nanofiber matrix for healing

A new nanofiber-on-microfiber matrix could help produce more and better quality stem cells for disease treatment and regenerative therapies.

Optical fibre with Einstein effect

Twisted photonic crystal fibres guide light by a mechanism similar to the bending of light rays by large celestial masses.

Better biosensors on edge

Inscribing porous, carbonized patterns into a polymer creates sensitive electrodes that detect biological molecules.

Lipid nanoparticles for gene therapy

A new review article describes these systems and their main advantages in gene therapy, such as their capacity to protect the gene material against degradation, to facilitate cell and nucleus internalisation and to boost the transfection process.

Measuring entropy on a single molecule

New research shows that a scanning-tunneling microscope, used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes.

New study of ferroelectrics offers roadmap to multivalued logic for neuromorphic computing

New research lays out a theoretical map to use ferroelectric material to process information using multivalued logic - a leap beyond the simple ones and zeroes that make up our current computing systems that could let us process information much more efficiently.

Tiny magnetic implant offers new drug delivery method

Researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant that could offer an alternative for patients struggling with numerous pills or intravenous injections.