Looking for cancer cells is like searching for a pin in a basket of needles. Tiny, glowing particles called quantum dots may someday make it easy to precisely locate malignant masses. When injected ...

A new study led by MIT researchers could drive the development of more energy-efficient digital displays—such as flat-screen ...

When you get a vaccine, the momentary needle prick endows your with disease-fighting antibodies and doesn’t leave a trace. But in the future, your vaccine record may be written invisibly on your skin ...

Researchers from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) have developed a "smart" beacon hundreds of times smaller than a human cell that is programmed to light ...

Fluorescent "dots"—that is, tiny particles that can emit light—have a multitude of promising biomedical applications, from helping clinicians to better identify tumor margins to delivering a drug deep ...