In 2007, Mehmet Toner and Daniel Haber and their collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a microfluidic device capable of trapping rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of cancer patients. Since then, these investigators, working with Harvard Medical School colleague Shyamala Maheswaren, have shown that captured CTCs can be used to characterize tumors from patients with lung and prostate cancer.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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A systematic study of phase changes in vanadium dioxide has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Tel Aviv researchers apply an industrial monitoring technique to orthopedic diagnoses.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Chemists from Copenhagen, Potsdam and Hanau have taken the first step towards producing fuel cells using very little of the precious metal.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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ANEC, The European Consumer Voice in Standardisation and BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation have published their reply to the European Commission public consultation on 'Proposal for a Commission definition of the term nanomaterial'.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Physicist Tilman Pfau and his group showed, that these superposition states last for several millionth of a second - too short for a real relationship, but long enough for molecules.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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So far, it has only been possible to image magnetic domains in two dimensions. Now, for the first time, Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have managed to create three-dimensional images of these domains deep within magnetic materials.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Application of a multicriteria decision making model based on probabilistic inversion to assess nanotechnology-enabled food products.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Easy-to-use nano-coating sprays with optical, electronic, biological properties, etc to cover surfaces! Teams from the Institut Charles Sadron, in collaboration with researchers from the Laboratoire de Biomateriaux et Ingenierie Tissulaire, have managed to improve and extend their technique of 'layer by layer' deposition.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Wissenschaftlern der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) ist es gelungen, stabfoermige Molekuele dazu zu bringen, sich selbst zu nur wenige Nanometer grossen Rotoren zusammen zu setzen.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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The Cleantech Open today released the complete list of winners that were announced at the 2010 Cleantech Open National Awards Gala and Expo.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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FP7 is on course and is clearly making a significant contribution to European science and the development of the European Research Area. This is one of the key messages to emerge from the newly-published interim evaluation of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Scientists at The University of Nottingham have made a major breakthrough that could help shape the future of nanotechnology, by demonstrating for the first time that 3-D molecular structures can be built on a surface.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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Sanjeevi Sivasankar was looking for a better tool to study how cells adhere to each other. So he came up with the idea of developing and building a unique, single-molecule microscope.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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The Dow Chemical Company and University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering Nanotechnology (AIBN) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for their second research alliance.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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The 'Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology' is a new Open Access journal for nanotechnology and nanoscience with no fees for authors and readers.
Nov 23rd, 2010
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