Filling the major gaps that exist in the understanding of the health, safety, environmental and societal impacts of nanotechnology is critically important to its long term success, a researcher said yesterday. Lori Sheremeta, research officer at the Canadian Institute for Nanotechnology, was making a presentation on ?Nanotechnology Stewardship? on the concluding day of the first international symposium on applied nanomedicine, hosted by Qatar Foundation.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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A researcher at the National University at San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. He describes a mathematical simulation to show how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled to a DNA sensor system to produce a characteristic signal for specific DNA fragments in a sample.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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Researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sensitive probe that can identify and characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and National Science Foundation (NSF) will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series "Nanotechnology: The Power of Small" on Wednesday evening, April 2.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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CATRENE, the recently approved EUREKA Cluster for Application and Technology Research on NanoElectronics is extending an invitation to Europe?s high tech industry, small and medium sized enterprises as well as research institutes and academia to participate in its first call for project proposals.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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Workshop on safety of nanomaterials on April 17-18, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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After Wayne Swan took the budgetary axe to the $21.5million Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy in January, Science Minister Kim Carr yesterday vowed to establish a system for regulating the commercial fruits of nanotechnology.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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A clever new microscope design allows nanotechnology researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to track the motions of nanoparticles in solution as they dart around in three dimensions. The researchers hope the technology, which NIST plans to patent, will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics of nanoparticles in fluids and, ultimately, process control techniques to optimize the assembly of nanotechnology devices.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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The Berlin-based company Capsulution Nanoscience AG, has signed a cooperative contract with the Tuebingen-based biotechnology company EMC microcollections GmbH and Charite University Berlin. The aim of this three-year long cooperation is the development of the topical vaccine, i.e. vaccines which, by simple application to the surface of the skin, can be used to treat cancer or to prevent infectious diseases.
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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The nation's best regional 'small tech' conference, co-hosted by the Washington Technology Center and Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) will be back for a fifth year after last year's wildly successful event. You are invited to participate!
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Lab that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the entire east wing of Riley Robb Hall by January 2009
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008
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NIOSH, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health posted on its website an updated version of its strategic plan for reseach in nanotechnology through the year 2012.
Posted: Mar 9th, 2008
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for a crucial step in quantum information science. They show how entanglement, an essential property of quantum mechanics, can be generated between beams of light, stored in a quantum memory, and mapped back into light with the push of a button.
Posted: Mar 8th, 2008
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Radioactive gold nanoparticles developed at the University of Missouri could be the next great leap in cancer-fighting technology.
Posted: Mar 8th, 2008
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Microscopic nanorobots may sound as futuristic as flying saucers and teleportation, but research already is under way at Saudi Aramco to put nanotechnology to work in oil reservoirs throughout the Kingdom.
Posted: Mar 7th, 2008
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The Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK is organizing a training course entitled Nanotechnology 4 Chemists from June 3-5, 2008 in Sheffield, UK.
Posted: Mar 7th, 2008
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