Professors Tiago Falk and Fiorenzo Vetrone of INRS (Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications Centre) will soon have new facilities available for exploring the world of neurotechnology and nanobiophotonics.
Oct 19th, 2012
Read moreFoodDrinkEurope today hosted its fifth annual stakeholder dialogue event to discuss the progress on potential applications and innovation in the use of nanotechnology amidst a backdrop of uncertainty and legal discussions over methodology and definitions of the technology and whether and how it should be labelled in the case of its potential use in food production.
Oct 19th, 2012
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A pioneering technology capable of atomic-level precision is now being developed to detect what so far has remained imperceptible: gravitational waves or ripples in space-time caused by cataclysmic events including even the Big Bang itself.
Oct 19th, 2012
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Rapid-fire lasers reveal that water molecules adopt three distinct local structures around model lipid monolayers.
Oct 19th, 2012
Read moreIn new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers describe the design and effectiveness of a first-of-its-kind, self assembled, multi-functional, NIR responsive gold nanorods that can deliver a chemotherapy drug specifically targeted to cancer cells and selectively release the drug in response to an external beam of light while creating heat for synergistic thermo-chemo mediated anti-tumor efficacy.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreResearchers have long sought to use magnetic fields to increase the concentration of drug-loaded iron oxide nanoparticles that reach a tumor. However, magnetic fields drop off quickly with distance, making it almost impossible to consider such an approach for tumors located more than a few centimeters from the skin. To solve what appears to be a fundamentally unsolvable problem, researchers have now taken a two-pronged approach, one that uses an external magnetic field and an implantable magnetizable mesh to create local magnetic fields strong enough to trap nanoparticles at a specific location.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreScientists have invented a cylindrical nanofilament structure that significantly reduces tumor growth in an animal model of breast cancer.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreResearchers in the MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (MIT CCNE) have developed RNA-delivering nanoparticles that allow for rapid screening of new drug targets in mice.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreOne of the hallmarks of cancer is that tumors alter the tissues that surround malignant cells. A team of investigators from Johns Hopkins has taken advantage of this hallmark to develop a new approach to identifying cancer that hones in on collagen that gets degraded as a tumor grows.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreA new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership (Kentucky CNPP) shows promise for developing ultrastable RNA nanoparticles that may help treat cancer by regulating cell function and binding to tumors without harming surrounding tissue.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreResearchers from the Johns Hopkins Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (Hopkins CCNE) report they are one step closer to a drug-delivery system flexible enough to overcome some key challenges posed by brain cancer and other maladies affecting the brain.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreA team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods.
Oct 18th, 2012
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An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Universities of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan in China, have demonstrated integrated arrays of emitters of so call 'optical vortex beams' onto a silicon chip.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreStructure sought for three decades; starting point for developing new antibacterial agents.
Oct 18th, 2012
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Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have managed, for the first time, to simulate the biological function of a channel called the Sec translocon, which allows specific proteins to pass through membranes.
Oct 18th, 2012
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Research has now characterised the mechanical properties of these simple tissues.
Oct 18th, 2012
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