by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The cancer exosome is detected when the light interacts with the silicon nanostructures. Credit: Yasaman Jahani / 2021 EPFL Researchers at EPFL have developed a technology based on nanophotonics and data science to detect and monitor cancer biomarkers at an early stage. Their research is published in Nature Communications. Medical doctors examine body fluids...
By Virginia Hughes Mice with tiny devices implanted in their brains showed a great affinity to one another in an experiment when the signals were synchronized. Credit: Northwestern University Late one evening last March, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country, Mingzheng Wu, a graduate student at Northwestern University, plopped two male mice into...
by Andy Fell, UC Davis A noninvasive method for measuring brain blood flow with light has been developed by biomedical engineers and neurologists at the UC Davis and used to detect brain activation. The new method, functional interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy, or fiDWS, promises to be cheaper than existing technology and could be used for assessing...
UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG IMAGE: VIOLET LIGHT TRIGGERS A SIGNALLING CHAIN IN THE LIGHT SENSOR PROTEIN SWITCH-CYCLOP, BLUE OR GREEN LIGHT STOPS THE CHAIN. AT THE END, THE PRODUCTION OF THE SIGNALLING MOLECULE CGMP IS REGULATED BY THE ENZYME GUANYLYL CYCLASE (GC). CREDIT: (PICTURE: SHIQIANG GAO / UNIVERSITY OF WUERZBURG) The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii...
