From an article by Philip Perry: A new 3D printed “Bionic Skin” developed at the University of Minnesota, is a stretchable, electronic fabric, which would allow robots to gain tactile sensation. The results of this study were published in the journal, Advanced Materials. Scientists have been dreaming of artificial skin since the 1970's. Thanks to [...]

From an article by Jessica Glenza in The Guardian: Researchers are developing tests that could make cancer detection so painless that it becomes part of routine check-ups, experts said, as new developments in such “liquid biopsy” technology were presented at the world’s largest cancer conference in Chicago this weekend. Collecting tumor tissue through biopsies is considered [...]

From nanowerknews.com: In the quantum world, our intuition for moving objects is strongly challenged and may sometimes even completely fail. Experimental physicists of the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with theorists from Munich, Paris and Cambridge have found a quantum particle which shows an intriguing oscillatory back-and-forth motion in a one-dimensional atomic gas. A ripe [...]

From Nanowerk News: A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has identified a surprising new role for the immune cells called macrophages -- improving the effectiveness of nanoparticle-delivered cancer therapies. In their Science Translational Medicine report ("Radiation therapy primes tumors for nanotherapeutic delivery via macrophage-mediated vascular bursts"), the investigators describe finding how appropriately timed radiation [...]