Getting a smart tattoo without using any needleA tattoo that is warning you for too many hours of sunlight exposure, or is alerting you for taking your medication? Next to their cosmetic role, tattoos could get new functionality using intelligent ink. That would require more precise and less invasive injection technique. Researchers of the University of Twente now develop a micro-jet injection technology that doesn’t use needles at all. Instead, an ultrafast liquid jet with the thickness of a human hair penetrates the skin. It isn’t painful and there is less waste. In there new publication in the Journal of Applied Physics, the scientists compare both the needle and the fluid jet approach.Read more
Too busy for misfoldingCould we keep unstructured proteins in our cells so busy doing their regular job that they cannot fold into the toxic structures leading to diseases like Parkinson and Alzheimer? Simply dissolving the ‘plaques’ that are formed, using medication, doesn’t seem to do the job. Professor Mireille Claessens of the University of Twente therefore wants to know, at what specific locations within the protein structures, an intervention is possible. Her inaugural address, as a Professor of Nanobiophysics, was on 11 April, World Parkinson Day.Read more
Getting a smart tattoo without using any needle
Too busy for misfolding
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