The University of Texas at San Antonio has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nanomaterials and their biomedical applications.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreResearchers in the lab of MIT materials science professor Carl V. Thompson grew dense forests of crystalline carbon nanotubes on a metal surface at temperatures close to those characteristic of computer chip manufacturing.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreAsylum Research, a technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM) announces its AFM in Biology Class to be held October 21-23, 2009 in Santa Barbara, California. The class is open to all Atomic Force Microscopy users that want to increase their knowledge of AFM in biology and life sciences.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at The University of Nottingham have a new weapon in their arsenal of tools to push back the boundaries of science, engineering, veterinary medicine and archaeology.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreA project for the production of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals has been approved by the Supervisory Council of RUSNANO.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreRUSNANO is considering a setup of international investment fund in the form of a partnership in Q4 2009 with the total fund size of up to up to $1 billion.
Sep 10th, 2009
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreOn September 9, 2009, a Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) delegation, headed by Anatoly Chubais, its Chief Executive Officer, started its working trip to France.
Sep 10th, 2009
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Unwanted blooms of Cladophora algae throughout the Baltic and in other parts of the world are not entirely without a positive side. A group of researchers at the Angstrom Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreRNAs, serving as a mere intermediary between DNA and proteins, were long regarded as a poor relation by researchers, attracting little interest. However, following the discovery of small RNAs known as microRNAs, they have increasingly been moving into the limelight.
Sep 10th, 2009
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Our society is insatiable as far as the transfer of data is concerned. Consequently, increasingly faster and cheaper transistors are being developed. In row in recent months, researchers from ETH Zurich have now broken the world record for the switching speed of nitride-based transistors that use silicon as a substrate several times.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreXavier University of Louisiana and New York University have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster diversity among materials scientists through collaborative research and curriculum development.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreA new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.
Sep 10th, 2009
Read moreA MIT team found that the calcium-silica-hydrate in cement isn't really a crystal. It's a hybrid that shares some characteristics with crystalline structures and some with the amorphous structure of frozen liquids, such as glass or ice.
Sep 9th, 2009
Read moreImportant issues surrounding the quality of food and drugs?including global supply chain management, the challenges of creating follow-on biologics and nanotechnology for drug delivery?will be the focus of the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention's 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting
Sep 9th, 2009
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Sodium-like tungsten ions could pepper - and conveniently monitor - the hot plasma soup inside fusion energy devices, potential sources of abundant, clean power.
Sep 9th, 2009
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