The Financial Times of London today carries an opinion piece by two Deloitte consultants about how nanotechnology, notwithstanding valid risks concerns, could turn out to have an important role in healing, not harming the planet.
Posted: Dec 5th, 2007
Read moreThree Canadian cities - Edmonton, AB, Vancouver, BC, and Fredericton, NB - have been named among the world's 21 smartest communities as the result of their smart and sensitive use of technology to foster socioeconomic progress.
Posted: Dec 4th, 2007
Read moreOn January 1, 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centers, which will receive a total of 74.4 million euros in funding over the next four years.
Posted: Dec 4th, 2007
Read moreJeroen Cornelissen of the Institute for Molecules and Materials at the Radboud University in the Netherlands has recently received EUR 1 million (approx. $2.9 million) from EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards).
Posted: Dec 4th, 2007
Read moreScientists at The University of Nottingham have won the prestigious Daiwa Adrian Prize for collaborative research with a Japanese university.
Posted: Dec 4th, 2007
Read morePratim Biswas at Washington University has shown that he can independently control the size of the nanoparticles that he makes while keeping their other properties the same. He's also shown with his technique that the nanoparticles can be made in large quantities in scalable systems, opening up the possibility for more applications and different techniques.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
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The NanoShow is a bimonthly global seminar series on Second Life's NanoIsland.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreIf plants need light to perform the photosynthesis essential to their survival, how do they protect themselves against too much light? A joint CEA-CNRS research team at the Saclay Institute of Biology and Technology is currently exploring this question, in collaboration with several other teams at universities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreA team of investigators has developed methods for loading gold nanoshells into precursor cells known as monocytes, which turn into macrophages in the tumor environment.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers have developed a microfluidics device that can form tumor spheroids in a large-scale, reproducible manner amenable to high-throughput drug screening protocols.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers have developed a method for stabilizing liposomes within a polymer cage. More importantly, the polymer cage is constructed to fall apart and trigger drug release from the liposome when taken into cells.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have developed a new procedure that produces ultracompact quantum dots.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe first drug-loaded nanoparticle approved to treat cancer is in line for an upgrade. Researchers at Northeastern University have improved the tumor-killing activity of liposomal doxorubicin, known as Doxil.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreCancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by noninvasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University has shown in preclinical experiments.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe five-day first winter school on nanotechnology in advanced drug delivery began on December 2 at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) at Mohali in Punjab.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) Nanotech 2008 Call for Papers will close December 6, 2007.
Posted: Dec 3rd, 2007
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