Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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From the Wire: Nanoscience has the potential to enhance a range of ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Here’s a great opportunity to combine business with pleasure. Swap the grim November weather and concrete sky engulfing much of Europe for almost guaranteed sunshine while catching up on developments in nanotechnology-based healthcare. The Third Annual Global Symposium on NanoBioTechnology comes to the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) on the campus of the University of ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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From the Wire: Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
From the Wire: Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional silicon-based transistors.
Carbon nanotubes, which were discovered in the early 1990s, could make possible more powerful, compact and energy-efficient computers, as ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
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Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and Harvard University have reported a series of experiments in which they folded DNA, origami-like, into ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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Nanoparticles are being developed to perform an array of medical uses -- imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
The new technique being developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham will utilise ultrasound technology to look inside cells. The components of the new technology would be many thousand times smaller than current systems.
The work by the Ultrasonics Group in the Division of Electrical Systems and Optics is considered ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a simple metal pump that lifts liquid using the wicking process trees use to pull water from ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
An opportunity to find out how innovation in medical technologies is leading to a range of novel and effective therapies, treatments and tools is offered by a one-day interactive workshop. Presented by the Institute of Nanotechnology in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, the event will be held on the ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
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The US National Science Foundation has announced that the first biodegradable fluorescent nanoparticle to safely image tumors ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Last week, US FDA announced a nanotechnology initiative in collaboration with eight Texas academic institutions that form the Alliance for Nanohealth (ANH; Houston). The goal of the initiative is to "help speed development of safe and effective medical products in the emerging field of nanotechnology" and to find ways to ...
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