Thursday, January 26th, 2012
If a theory about detecting extremely faint electrical signals by means of a nanomechanical loudspeaker can be shown to work in experiments, it could result in much simpler MRI procedures, reports Nanowerk News.
A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute and Harvard University in the United States and the ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
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Animal research continues to be a controversial topic in medical research. In Germany ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Bax & Willems, a specialised consultancy firm, has just release a free-to-download European Nanotechnology Landscape Report that provides an overview of the nanotechnology landscape in Europe targeted at policy makers on all levels (local, regional, national and European). It also examines how nanotechnology developments, and the solutions they enable, can help ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Japanese researchers have developed a material that can generate power after implantation by absorbing light from outside the body. The technology is being applied to the development of a battery-free cardiac pacemaker.
Currently, the lithium-ion batteries that power pacemakers need to be replaced every five to 10 years, requiring users to ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new technique to visualise live cancerous cells using luminescent metal-based nanotechnology, according to a university press release. The research is a collaboration between the School of Chemistry and the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and was recently published in the Journal of ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
By adding tiny gold wires to engineered heart tissue, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are making cardiac patches more conductive, reports Nanowerk News.
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
UK's Technology Strategy Board in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is going to invest up to £9 million in grant funding to support innovative, business-led collaborative research projects focussed on nanoscale technology-enabled solutions for the healthcare sector. The competition encourages applications for business-led projects focussing on the ...
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The Institute of Nanotechnology, Ceram and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Networks will hold the conference "Nanoscale Bioceramics in Healthcare and High Performance Ceramics" on 12 and 13 October 2011. The conference will take place at Ceram’s headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Researchers at the Universität Tübingen in Germany have developed a tip made from a dilute gas of atoms for a scanning probe microscope, according to an article on the Compamed website. The research was led by professors József Fortágh and Andreas Günther.
A scanning probe microscope has a moveable tip that ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The potential risks of nanotechnology and its effects on humans and the environment is a widely discussed subject. But to this day, there are no proven risk factors and now, a study finds that the general public is alarmingly unconcerned about the use of nanotechnology. Conducted by North Carolina State ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
When thinking of Switzerland, what first comes to your mind: the Alps? Cheese? Watches? Or is it the irresistibly delicious Swiss chocolate? When reading through Norbert Sparrow's blog "Switzerland Deploys Nano Patrol" on medtechinsider last week, I was immediately reminded of my recent trip to Switzerland. Working on an article ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Remember asbestos? The material used to be in everything—including cigarette filters—until it eventually dawned on people that those tiny fibres could wreak havoc inside the body. There are some people—and they are not all Michael Crichton devotees—who think we should learn from this example and take a more cautious approach ...
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