Microscopic drug 'depots' boost efficacy against tumors in animal model
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a technique for creating microscopic "depots" for trapping drugs inside cancer tumors. In...
Highly efficient heavy metal ions filter
In November 2015, Brazil experienced an unparalleled environmental disaster. When two dams broke at an iron ore mine, a poisonous...
Flexible and transparent pressure sensor
The pressure sensors wrap around and conform to the shape of the fingers while still accurately measuring pressure distribution.
Weaving a New Story for COFS and MOFs
There are many different ways to make nanomaterials but weaving, the oldest and most enduring method of making fabrics, has not been one of them – until now. An international collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s...
Seeing the big picture in photosynthetic light harvesting: Berkeley Lab researchers create first multiple antennae model of photosystem II
The new model simulates light-harvesting across several hundred nanometers of a thylakoid membrane, which is the membrane within a chloroplast that harbors photosystem II (PSII), a complex of antennae made up of mostly of chlorophyll-containing...
Flying in the Dark? NAMRU-D’s Night Vision Simulation Lab to Benefit Aviators
We sometimes take our five senses for granted, especially our vision. As our most utilized sense, vision gives us accurate information about our environment, where we are within it, and how it changes as we move. Most don’t give this sense a second...
New sensors to combat the proliferation of bacteria in very high-humidity environments
The Telecommunications Engineer Aitor Urrutia-Azcona has designed some humidity sensors with anti-bacterial properties that combat the proliferation of micro-organisms in environments where the humidity level is very high, such as hospitals and...
Converting solar energy into electric power via photobioelectrochemical cells
Novel photo-bioelectrochemical cells point to a new method to photonically drive biocatalytic fuel cells while generating electrical...
