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  • Single blood vessel analysis by artificial intelligence (AI) reveals heterogeneous vascular permeability among different tumour types, which is leveraged in rationally designing protein nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems to achieve active trans-endothelial permeability in tumours.

    • Lutz Nuhn
    News & Views
  • A study of the transport of gold nanoparticles in the kidney nephron shows a previously unreported transport pathway.

    • Robert Unwin
    News & Views
  • Combination of physical tissue expansion and super-resolution radial fluctuations achieves nanoscale resolution in pathology specimens with LED-based widefield microscopy.

    • Brendan R. Gallagher
    • Yongxin Zhao
    News & Views
  • An in-memory factorization device, based on a phase-change material, shows enhanced capabilities in solving large-scale factorization problems due to improved energy, area and time efficiencies of the memory function.

    • Yingming Lu
    • Yuchao Yang
    News & Views
  • The n- and p-type channel characteristics of WSe2 are exploited to implement multiply–accumulate and activation functions simultaneously in an in-memory computing core.

    • Fatemeh Kiani
    • Qiangfei Xia
    News & Views
  • High-Tc superconducting nanowire detectors can detect single photons of telecom wavelengths at a temperature of 25 K and may enable applications in quantum sensing and quantum information processing.

    • Jin Chang
    • Iman Esmaeil Zadeh
    News & Views
  • Biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) microplastics are shown to undergo enzymatic hydrolysis by lipases found in the human gut to generate PLA oligomers, which self-aggregate to form nanoplastic particles. The oligomers and their nanoparticles bioaccumulated in multiple organs of a mouse model and caused acute intestinal inflammation.

    Research Briefing
  • Polymer-based nanomedicines have been engineered to ratiometrically deliver three different drugs to tumors, thereby bridging in vitro–in vivo correlation and producing synergistic therapeutic efficacy in multiple myeloma mouse models.

    • Alexandros Marios Sofias
    • Twan Lammers
    News & Views
  • A technique that blends micro- and nanometre-scale printed elements has been used to sculpture white light into a spatial array of coloured twisted beams, demonstrating sophisticated photonic control even with common incoherent sources of light.

    • Andrew Forbes
    • Leerin Perumal
    News & Views
  • This Review illustrates opportunities for the nanophotonics community when adopting machine learning approaches.

    • Jean-Francois Masson
    • John S. Biggins
    • Emilie Ringe
    Review Article
  • An electric field gradient can be used to control spin qubits in silicon quantum dots, enabling switchable fast single-qubit gates and, potentially, scalability.

    • Xuedong Hu
    News & Views
  • The self-assembly of a triblock bottlebrush polymer at one length scale controls the ordering of the self-assembly at a smaller scale, forming a hierarchical unit cell.

    • Kevin G. Yager
    News & Views
  • Nanosensors allow early detection of the onset and type of plant stress for a more precise and sustainable agriculture

    • Juan Pablo Giraldo
    • Sebastian Kruss
    News & Views