Eye Discovery to Pave Way for More Successful Corneal Transplants
Less Drain on Freshwater Supplies With Seawater Fuel Discovery
Researchers have found that seawater can replace freshwater to produce the sustainable fuel Bioethanol, reducing the need to drain precious resources. The study – ‘The establishment of a marine focused biorefinery for bioethanol production using seawater and a novel marine yeast strain’ – has been published in Scientific Reports and was carried out by researchers at the…
Salt is Key Ingredient for Cheaper and More Efficient Batteries
Magnetic Order Changes our Digital Lives
Digital memory and security could be transformed, according to new research which has for the first time showed that antiferromagnets can be easily controlled and read by switching the direction of ordinary electrical currents at super-fast speed. Physicists at the University of Nottingham, have published new research in the prestigious academic journal Nature Nanotechnology which…
Reactions in Tiny Containers—Toward the World’s Smallest Coaxial Cable
As electronic devices continue to shrink to meet the demand for pocket sized and wearable technology, scientists are working to develop the minute components that make them work and a team at the University of Nottingham have developed a new approach for the preparation of a coaxial cable around 50,000 times narrower than the width…
New MyAsthma Can Help Relieve the Stress of Asthma Management
A new and unique smartphone app to help people with asthma manage their condition has been developed by lung experts at the Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The MyAsthma app has been launched on the iTunes App Store and is available to download free of charge. The app has been…
New Ultrasound Technique Images Inside Live Cells
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a breakthrough technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live cells, with potential application in stem cell transplants and cancer diagnosis. The new nanoscale ultrasound technique uses shorter-than-optical wavelengths of sound and could even rival the optical super-resolution techniques which won the 2014 Nobel…
Innovative Technique “Tastes” DNA
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to selectively sequence fragments of DNA in real time, greatly reducing the time needed to analyze biological samples. A paper published in the academic journal Nature Methods describes a novel technique for highly selective DNA sequencing, called “Read Until.” …
