The Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) at Johns Hopkins University strives to be integrative and multidisciplinary. With 170 faculty and more than two dozen graduate students and undergraduates with backgrounds as diverse as physics and computational medicine, the institute has sought to broaden skills and foster collaborations among its student body and its faculty members.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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Quantum dots have been studied in lasers, solar paneling, and biomedical therapeutics. Nina Markovic, affiliated faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology and assistant professor of physics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, believes this emerging technology will prove important in cancer therapies, energy transmission, and drug delivery.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy's Technology Transfer Coordinator, Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, announced today two new model agreements that will expand access to DOE's world-class research facilities by academia and industry.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreAphios Corporation today announced receipt of a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop an improved oral formulation for marijuana addiction and unmet medical needs.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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A group of researchers led by Adrian Bachtold of the CIN2 laboratory in Spain has developed an ultrasensitive mass sensor, which can measure tiny amounts of mass with atomic precision, and with an unprecedented resolution to date.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreResearchers working in the European ROLLED project have developed a flexible OLED element that can be mass produced using roll-to-roll printing technology.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreEin internationales Forscherteam, dem auch LMU-Wissenschaftler angehoeren, konnte nun zeigen, dass Defekte in den Nanoroehren das Material sogar verbessern koennten.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreHarnessing the process of biomineralization may be closer to reality as an international team of scientists has detailed a key and previously hidden mechanism to transform amorphous calcium carbonate into calcite, the stuff of seashells.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreA new nanoparticle-enabled imaging method for breast cancer, utilizing encapsulated fluorescent molecules in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and nontoxic near infrared imaging, has been developed by a team of scientists from Penn State.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreBy coupling a kicked-up version of microscopy with gold nanoparticles, investigators at Duke University have been able to peer so deeply into living tissue that they can see molecules interacting.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreNanoparticles filled with small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules targeting two genes that trigger melanoma have shown that they can inhibit the development of melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreA team of investigators at Northwestern University has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreThanks to the development of a microscope capable of measuring Raman spectroscopic signals from living mice, researchers have a noninvasive tool to study where carbon nanotubes travel once they are injected into the blood stream.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreProduction capacity at the Solar Village is to be increased five times, with KACST and IBM working together to use nanotechnology to develop the Solar Village and improve its performance, with an agreement made to focus on new materials for converting solar energy into electricity.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreThe World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Government of Dubai, will hold its inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai from 7 to 9 November 2008.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreSynthetic biology is an emerging area of research that uses advanced science and engineering to make or redesign living organisms, such as bacteria, so that they can carry out specific functions.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
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