Tiny electronically active chemicals can be made to form ordered layers on a surface, thanks to research supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the EUROCORES program SONS 2 (Self-Organised NanoStructures).
Jul 10th, 2008
Read moreResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I is regulated by force.
Jul 9th, 2008
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A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry's quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreA workshop on September 10-11, 2008 in Washington, DC brings together experts from diverse disciplines to evaluate how the field of risk analysis can address the considerable uncertainties currently associated with impacts from nanoscale materials and nanotechnologies.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreResearchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters - groups of 10 to 100 atoms - with atomic precision.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreDr. Gino DiLabio, Research Council Officer at Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) in Edmonton, Alberta, has been awarded the 2008 Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence in the Field of Physical Organic Chemistry.
Jul 9th, 2008
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Terrace-like elevations of just a few nanometres can form during production of organic thin films made from electrically conductive material. This phenomenon was previously only known from inorganic materials and is crucially important for future production of a new generation of semi-conductor components based on organic thin films.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreBorrowing from a Nobel Prize-winning technique credited with starting the nanotechnology revolution, a team of researchers has developed a method for imaging nanoparticles inside of cells.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreResearchers have developed a new type of nanoparticle-based assay for measuring the activity of Telomerase that appears to be both accurate and sensitive enough for clinical use.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreCombining a nanoparticle with manganese, a metal that boosts magnetic resonance imaging signals, and an antibody that targets blood vessels, researchers have created a new type of imaging agent that also has the potential to deliver drugs to tumors.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreUsing carbon nanotubes linked to tumor-homing antibodies, a research team has shown that they can specifically kill the targeted tumor cells using near-infrared light.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreMore than 15 years ago, scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks. The Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise for medical science, but so far it has been difficult to apply the technique, known as RNA interference, in living cells. Now scientists have succeeded in using quantum dots to address this problem.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreA new treatment strategy using targeted nanoparticles to block metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreJPK announces the seventh annual symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in areas such as biophysical, biochemical and medical research. It will be held on the 8-9th October 2008 in Berlin.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreOne year after launch, important tool is now available in Mandarin, French and Spanish.
Jul 9th, 2008
Read moreJoin former Environmental Protection Agency official J. Clarence Davies, one of the nation's foremost authorities on environmental regulation and policy, at the release of his new report that identifies the steps the incoming president must take to deal with the potential risks posed by nanotechnology.
Jul 9th, 2008
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