Microfluidic integrated circuit could help enable home diagnostic tests
As a way to simplify lab-on-a-chip devices that could offer quicker, cheaper and more portable medical tests, University of Michigan researchers have created microfluidic integrated circuits.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2010
Read moreNanoparticle research shows potential for new cancer detection and therapy method
University of Missouri School of Medicine scientists explain a potentially new early cancer detection and treatment method using nanoparticles created at MU.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2010
Read moreUnveiling spiral magnetism
Photoemission experiments shed light on the origin of an enigmatic type of magnetism in iron.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2010
Read moreDNA-Baukasten als Nanomotoren Konstruktionsmaterial
In die Nanomechanik kommt Bewegung. Wissenschaftlern der Universitaet Bonn ist es erstmals gelungen, aus DNA-Doppelstraengen ein Molekuel, ein so genanntes Rotaxan, herzustellen, dessen Einzelteile mechanisch frei beweglich sind.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2010
Read moreLensless device is the world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope
Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further - or tinier: The UCLA engineer has created a miniature microscope, the world's smallest and lightest for telemedicine applications.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreNovel negative-index metamaterial responds to visible light
Uniquely versatile material could be used for more efficient light collection in solar cells.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreGerman-Japanese team develops world's first DNA-based revolutionary biosensor technology
Accurately detects proteins 100 times faster than in the past; dramatically improves disease diagnosis.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreScientists take first step toward controlling the growth of nanomaterials without catalysts
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently made a significant first step toward understanding how to control the growth of the nanotubes, nanowires and nanorods needed for renewable energy and other technology applications.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreResearchers find molecular structure of key fluorescent proteins
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have determined the crystal structures of two key fluorescent proteins - one blue, one red - used to 'light up' molecules in cells.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreBiosensor chip enables high-sensitivity protein analysis for disease diagnosis
Researchers have developed a novel biosensor chip that not only recognizes proteins that are characteristic for specific diseases, but also can show if these proteins are changed through the influence of disease or drugs.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreCarbon nanotube composite holds promise for bionics
Mimicking the human nervous system for bionic applications could become a reality with the help of a method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to process carbon nanotubes.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreThirteen nanotechnology projects at UAlbany received total funding of $876 million
$876.1 million spent on Cconstruction, equipment and operations.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreLondon Centre for Nanotechnology creates over 20 new Ph.D. positions
The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) is pleased to announce the creation of over 20 new Ph. D. positions for the current academic year. The positions cover all aspects of research at the LCN and are available immediately.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreCopernicus Award 2010 for German-Polish cooperation on nanotechnology and semiconductor materials
For their achievements in promoting German-Polish cooperation in science, Professor Dr. Alfred Forchel from Wuerzburg and Professor Dr. Jan Misiewicz from Wroclaw, both physicists, will receive the Copernicus Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP).
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreFrom idea to acceptance - how knowledge makes its way into our world
Science philosopher studies how knowledge is created.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
Read moreCheaper solar concentrator design requires fewer photovoltaic cells
A new solar concentrator design from an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego could lead to solar concentrators that are less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010
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