Apr 24, 2025 Scientists have developed oral nanorobots that target damaged heart tissue, deliver energy, and repair mitochondrial function, offering a novel approach to treating ischemic heart disease. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Mitochondria serve as cellular power plants, converting nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – the energy molecule that fuels cellular functions....
‘Tattooing’ living tardigrades with nanoscale patterns
Apr 24, 2025 New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological systems with technology for sensing and monitoring. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The merging of engineered microscopic patterns with living organisms promises to revolutionize medicine, environmental monitoring, and biological research. Imagine microscopic markers that...
Mysteriously mundane turbulence revealed in 2D superfluid
Apr 24, 2025 Researchers have developed a new tool for measuring velocities in a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid and applied it to studying superfluid turbulence. (Nanowerk News) Despite existing everywhere, the quantum world is a foreign place where many of the rules of daily life don’t apply. Quantum objects jump through...
Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation
Apr 24, 2025 Nanophotonic platform enables single-photon nonlinear quantum communication, solving efficiency barriers that hindered previous implementation attempts. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past...
FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer
Apr 24, 2025 Using their novel Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for the printing of soft living cells and tissues, researchers built a first-of-its-kind microphysiologic system, or tissue model, entirely out of collagen. (Nanowerk News) Collagen is well-known as an important component of...