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Drug eluting nanostructured coatings enable targeted drug therapy for orthopedic patients
Nanotechnology promises yet another advance by delivering therapeutic agents at desired rates exactly where needed in the body.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreNanocomposite labeled cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed using lasers
By combining an organic matrix with metallic clusters that can absorb light, it is possible to incorporate such particles into cells and then destroy those targeted cells with a laser.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreRegenerating nerve cells with nanotechnology
The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreTargeted nanoparticles incorporating siRNA offer promise for cancer treatment
Researchers have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), sometimes known as silencing RNA, to "silence" specific genes that are implicated in certain malignancies.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology water desalination for Australia
The delivery of energy efficient desalination in Australia received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.
Posted: May 19th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology supercomputing center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.
Posted: May 19th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics
Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins.
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreTunable photonics with high refractive index
Scientists in Hong Kong have created a polymer with a refractive index that can be tuned as high as 1.81
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreCAS reports progress in developing nanotechnology data storage
New advancements have been scored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) scientists on ultrahigh-density information storage as they successfully carried out the reversible, erasable and rewritable nanorecording on H2 thin films of rotaxane
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreEurope races ahead of US in university-industry collaboration
A Europe-wide survey has found that European collaboration between industry and universities exceeds that of the US.
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreReport accuses government of gross failure in protecting public from nanotechnology
A report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) accuses the U.S. government of gross failure to use its authority to protect citizens from the potentially dangerous effects of nano-scale chemistry.
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology timelines and mapviews in Google Experimental
New, experimental Google Search features Timeline and Map Views use nanotechnology as example.
Posted: May 17th, 2007
Read moreCommercializing university research - Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
A not-so-whacky university-based center for entrepreneurism has funded some, well, somewhat unusual research projects that actually may have commercial potential.
Posted: May 17th, 2007
Read moreSolutions emerging for wafer cleaning at 45 nm and beyond
Potential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting.
Posted: May 17th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology fingerprint analysis could replace blood sample
British scientists want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases.
Posted: May 17th, 2007
Read moreUK publishes report on environmental benefits of nanotechnology
The 'Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities', a new report by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was published today.
Posted: May 17th, 2007
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