Sentences with phrase «use of magnetic nanoparticles»

Magnetotactic bacteria can even sense the earth's magnetic field by making use of magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal compass.

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Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

These new, non-invasive tools — representing significant advances related to positron emission tomography (PET), 3 - D microscopy and the use of magnetic fields and nanoparticles to remotely control targeted cells...

Anikeeva, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, decided to see if she could use magnetic nanoparticles to go deeper.

Previous cancer studies had shown that by injecting tumors with magnetic nanoparticles made of iron oxide — «essentially rust, with well - tuned magnetic properties,» Anikeeva says — then exposing them to rapidly alternating magnetic fields, excited nanoparticles can be used to heat and destroy cancer tumors while leaving surrounding, healthy tissue intact.

The technique could facilitate the use of nanoparticles for optical, electrical, optoelectronic, magnetic, catalysis and other applications in which tight control over size and structure is essential to obtaining desirable properties.

Certain strains of bacteria absorb iron to make magnetic nanoparticles that let them navigate using the Earth's magnetic field.

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

«We think it is possible to use a static magnetic field first to help guide the nanoparticles to the clot, then alternate the orientation of the field to increase the nanoparticles» efficiency in dissolving clots,» says Paolo Decuzzi, who led the study.

A University of Manitoba physicist is part of an international research team developing a cancer treatment method that uses magnetic nanoparticles to kill tumours with heat.

The team used iron oxide for the core of the nanoparticles, which not only enables the team to use them for magnetic resonance imaging, but opens up possibilities in remote guidance and localized magnetic heating to hasten the breaking up of the clots.

... researchers working with magnetic nanoparticles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) approached computational scientists at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to help solve a unique problem: to model magnetism at the atomic level using experimental data from a real nanoparticle.

To simulate a supercell of about 1,300 atoms from strongly magnetic regions of the 23,000 - atom nanoparticle, they used the Linear Scaling Multiple Scattering (LSMS) code, a first - principles density functional theory code developed at ORNL.

Here, we show that capillarity - mediated binding between magnetic nanoparticles coated with a liquid lipid shell can be used for the assembly of ultraflexible microfilaments and network structures.

The researchers then used the three - dimensional coordinates of the atoms as inputs into quantum mechanics calculations to determine the magnetic properties of the iron - platinum nanoparticle.

Researchers have developed a technique using magnetic nanoparticles that opens the door to allow therapeutic molecules to cross the blood - brain barrier, thereby opening the door to new treatments and diagnosis of brain diseases.

Magnetofection uses a magnetic field to enhance transfection of biodegradable nanoparticles loaded with DNA and an associated transfection component.

The technology for binding of DNA fragments onto the applied magnetic nanoparticle surface does not require use of any hazardous chaotropic buffers.