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Home > Press > Nanoparticle drug delivery technique shows promise for treating pancreatic cancer: Method may also work for breast, prostate, ovarian cancer
Study researchers Drs. Snigdha Banerjee, Suman Kambhampati, Sushanta Banerjee, and a colleague examine a pancreatic cancer image.
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Jeff Gates
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Researchers with the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and North Dakota State University have designed a new way to deliver pancreatic cancer drugs that could make fighting the disease much easier. Encapsulating cancer drugs in nanoparticles shows potential to target tumors more effectively and avoid danger to other parts of the body.
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Home > Press > Threads that sense how and when you move? New technology makes it possible: Engineers created thread sensors that can be attached to skin to measure movement in real time, with potential implications for tracking health and performance
Scanning electron microscopy of carbon ink-coated threads. Straight thread on left. Bending the coated threads creates strain (right), which changes their electrical conductivity - a quantity that can used to calculate the degree of deformation (scale bar 200 microns)
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Yiwen Jiang, Tufts University
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Engineers at Tufts University have created and demonstrated flexible thread-based sensors that can measure movement of the neck, providing data on the direction, angle of rotation and degree of displacement of the head. The discovery raises the potential for thin, inconspicuous tatoo-like patches that could, according to the Tufts team, measure athletic performance, monit
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Home > Press > Going Organic: uOttawa team realizing the limitless possibilities of wearable electronics
Dr. Benoît Lessard says that organic electronics are the best technology for creating wearable sensors and artificial skin
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Benoît Lessard and his team are developing carbon-based technologies which could lead to improved flexible phone displays, make robotic skin more sensitive and allow for wearable electronics that could monitor the physical health of athletes in real-time.
Going Organic: uOttawa team realizing the limitless possibilities of wearable electronics
Ottawa, Canada | Posted on January 28th, 2021
With the help of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), a team of Canadian and international scientists have evaluated how thin film structure correlates to organic thin-film transistors performance.
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Home > Press > Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems: New design could speed reaction rates in electrochemical systems for pulling carbon out of power plant emissions
Dyes are used to reveal the concentration levels of carbon dioxide in the water. On the left side is a gas-attracting material, and the dye shows the carbon dioxide stays concentrated next to the catalyst.
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Systems for capturing and converting carbon dioxide from power plant emissions could be important tools for curbing climate change, but most are relatively inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions.