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Magnetic nanoparticles: CEDENNA aims to revolutionize cancer treatment

Submitted by olabrin on Fri, 09/22/2023 - 18:15

Today on the CNN portal, Futuro 360, the important research that the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA) has been developing was highlighted and the particularity of this innovation lies in the use of magnetic nanoparticles capable of highly eliminating cancer cells and tumors. localized, without damaging surrounding healthy tissues.

Magnetic Nanoparticles Treat Cancer through Hyperthermia, Without Causing Damage to Healthy Tissues

Submitted by olabrin on Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:14

Today in the Innovation section of the newspaper El Mercurio the transcendental innovation that our Center has been developing was highlighted. It is a technology that has the potential to attack tumors and cancer cells in a highly localized and less invasive way than chemo and radiotherapy, called Magnetic Hyperthermia.

"The nanoparticles are excited, generate heat and in this way kill cancer cells," explained the researcher and head of the CEDENNA Nanomedicine and Biosensors Laboratory, Dr. Patricia Díaz.

Column by Dr. María José Galotto: Nanotechnology, a viable strategy to address the plastic pollution crisis

Submitted by olabrin on Thu, 09/07/2023 - 15:44

Today on the CNN portal, Futuro 360, the opinion column of the alternate director of CEDENNA, Dr. María José Galotto, was highlighted, where she gives her opinion on how nanotechnology represents a viable strategy to address the plastic pollution crisis: "The Traditional plastic recycling processes often reduce their physical and mechanical properties, making it difficult to reuse them in new packaging."

 

To see the complete column, you can visit the following link:

Innovative treatment with magnetic nanoparticles developed at CEDENNA

Submitted by olabrin on Mon, 09/04/2023 - 18:16

In the Science and Technology section of MEGA PRIME, the innovative treatment with magnetic nanoparticles that is being developed at the CEDENNA Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center was highlighted.

Through the use of magnetic nanoparticles, CEDENNA is working on a technology that has the potential to attack tumors and cancer cells in a highly localized manner, without causing damage to surrounding healthy tissues or organs.

CEDENNA signed an important agreement with the German company Kipu Quantum

Submitted by carmen.ibarra on Wed, 08/23/2023 - 15:17

Today in the digital media of the University of Santiago, Diario USACH, the important agreement with the German company Kipu Quantum that was recently signed by the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology CEDENNA was recognized.

This agreement is the first that the European software company has with a Latin American entity.

You can see the complete news in the following link!

Interview with Dr. Miguel Kiwi in El Mostrador: "Scientific advances are unstoppable"

Submitted by olabrin on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:11

In an interview conducted by the digital newspaper El Mostrador, Dr. Miguel Kiwi (National Prize for Exact Sciences in 2007 and researcher at the CEDENNA Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) spoke about "the lights and shadows" of Warner Heisenberg, a pioneering physicist of quantum mechanics and who was in charge of the scientific investigation of the Uranium Project of the German atomic bomb during World War II.

Dr. Kiwi in an entertaining interview with Vicente in the "Award Collector"

Submitted by olabrin on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:10

Our CEDENNA researcher and National Prize for Exact Sciences in 2007, Dr. Miguel Kiwi stood out in the cultural program Coleccionista de Premios broadcast by NTV, where he was recognized for his contributions in the area of ​​solid state physics.

 

To see the video click on the following link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6AawDI7aq0

 

"Award Collector" toured CEDENNA with Dr. Dora Altbir

Submitted by olabrin on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:06

The cultural program broadcast by NTV "El Coleccionista de Premios" highlighted Dr. Dora Altbir, National Prize for Exact Sciences 2019 in its 9th chapter.

Vicente, a curious and empowered teenager, toured some of the laboratories of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, CEDENNA, together with the then director, experimenting in Electron Microscopy, Nanobiomedicine and Technology Transfer. A day full of surprises and emotions.

 

You can watch the video at the following link!

CEDENNA signs an important agreement with a German company to promote research in quantum computing in Chile

Submitted by olabrin on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:04

The CNN digital outlet Futuro 360 highlighted the important agreement that the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology CEDENNA signed with a prominent German company Kipu Quantum.

The signed agreement not only represents a significant achievement in international collaboration between academia and the private sector, but also positions Chile and Latin America on the map of the scientific and technological vanguard.

You can see the full note in the following link!

Digital quantum computing gains momentum with agreement between Chilean researchers and German company Kipu Quantum

Submitted by olabrin on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 12:55

Today Radio del Mar highlighted the important agreement between the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology CEDENNA and the German company Kipu Quantum.

It should be remembered that this agreement has a significant impact for the country, since it is the only one signed in Chile and Latin America by this German software company, focused on the development of specific quantum algorithms for applications and hardware that are marketed as business solutions.

You can see the full note in the following link!

Nanoscience Photos

Campos magnéticos coloridos
Rebeldía de las magnetizaciones
Rebeldía de las magnetizaciones
Nanoarrugas
Impresión de nanovolcanes
Nanohilos de Cobalto
Estrella de Vanadio
Autora: R. Abarca, Cedenna.
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