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Cancer Cells Have Pull (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Nanoscale patterns of metal on glass substrates govern the mobility of organic molecules, lipids and proteins, which form a coating ’supported’ membrane. This synthetic cell surface can replace the surface of a natural cell and form an interface with a living cell. (read on…) Related items Researchers Gain Detailed Insight Into Failing Heart Cells Using New Nano... »
Eagle’s Eye: Self-powered devices (Central Chronicle)
Imagine a self-powering cell phone that never needs to be charged because it converts sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running -Dr SS Verma In an electrical power dependent lifestyle, self-powered devices have always been of a great curiosity for mankind and more due to man’s growing... »
Researchers Gain Detailed Insight Into Failing Heart Cells Using New Nano Technique (Medical News Today)
Researchers have been able to see how heart failure affects the surface of an individual heart muscle cell in minute detail, using a new nanoscale scanning technique developed at Imperial College London. The findings may lead to better design of beta-blockers, the drugs that can slow the development of heart failure, and to improvements... »
An electrifying discovery: New material to harvest electricity from body movements (PhysOrg)
Scientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers. In a study in ACS’ Nano Letters, they describe development of flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The material could be... »
‘Starving’ fat suppresses appetite (PhysOrg)
Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers. (read here…) Related items Shaking Brain Cancer Cells to Death (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) Image-guided treatment for deep venous thrombosis could improve patients’ long-term outcomes (PhysOrg) Albumin... »
