Research into RNA, a molecule found in every cell of our bodies, could lead to remarkable advances in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, a meeting organised by the European Science Foundation was told.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreMauro Ferrari, Ph.D., a nanomedicine scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received a five-year, $7 million Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Research Program to develop a targeted new delivery system for breast cancer drugs.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreResearchers have investigated the behavior of electrons in thin graphite films in real time. They recorded the dynamics of electrons with an unprecedented temporal resolution of only 10 femtoseconds.
Mar 4th, 2009
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Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of quantum dots in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreOakland University announced the launch of the new NanoTech Research and Development Institute on their campus in Rochester, Michigan.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreOptical technology developed by a Northwestern University professor of biomedical engineering has been shown to be effective in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighboring tissue in the duodenum.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreIn quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for experimentation and observed some of the 'spooky action of quantum mechanics' directly.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreIn order for the potential health risks associated with nanotechnology to be properly assessed, the current regulatory system in the US must be changed. That is the conclusion of a new paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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New research findings reveal the electrical resistance through molecular junctions can be turned 'on' and 'off' simply by pushing and pulling the junction - a feature that could be used as a switch in nanoscale electronic devices.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Just as x-ray technology, MRI and sonography transformed the practice of medicine, a newly created approach for seeing the invisible promises great potential for finding new ways to improve the health of human and microelectronic patients alike.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreResearchers in Japan have developed a new method for producing ultra-lightweight hollow carbon fine particles (diameters ranging from several nanometers to several tens of micrometers) from lignin, which is a byproduct obtained in large quantities during the manufacture of paper or bio-ethanol, and inorganic salts.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Geoffrey von Maltzahn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his promising innovations in the area of cancer therapy, specifically two inventions in nanomedicine: a new class of cancer therapeutics and a new paradigm for enhancing drug delivery to tumors.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates significantly greater efficiency in the transport of electrons.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read morethe Center for Nanotechnology in Society and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies will address this question at a March 23 program.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreSuccessful CNSE-IBM-New York State strategy to advance innovation, education and economic investment featured at National Association for Business Economics conference
Mar 3rd, 2009
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