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Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

...lso the first linking of a solid-state device -- a nanowire transistor -- to the neuronal projections that int...ter-neuron communication. By contrast, the tiny nanowire transistors developed by Lieber and colleagues gently touch a neuronal projection to form a hybrid s...

Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab

...f nanotechnology, collagen has appeal as a type of nanowire because it is thin -- thinner even than the vaunted carbon nanotubes hailed by nanotechnologists -- and long. Coated with gold or silver, human collagen could form the basis of implantable electric sensors. By attaching certain biological molecules ...

Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer, scientists find

...stry in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "A nanowire array can test a mere pinprick of blood in just mi...g of telomerase binding and activity. Lieber says nanowire arrays could easily be scaled up to detect many different cancer markers -- more of which are being ...

Researchers Discover That Microbes Can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

...microbes to share energy in a mini-power grid. The nanowire pili of individual Geobacter often intertwine, suggesting a strategy by which Geobacter might share electricity. Geobacter was discovered by Lovley in 1987 at the muddy bottom of the Potomac River in Washington D.C., and over the past 18 years his r...

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