The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco, has developed a draft set of policy recommendations to address potential health risk from nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the state of California.
May 4th, 2010
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A novel mechanism for long-term air retention under water is found in the sophisticated surface design of the water fern Salvinia. Its floating leaves are evenly covered with complex hydrophobic hairs retaining a layer of air when submerged under water. This Salvinia Effect provides an innovative concept to develop biomimetic surfaces with long-term air-retention capabilities for under water applications.
May 4th, 2010
Read moreThis new treatment for war injuries includes using a process or technology called Photochemical Tissue Bonding, which can replace conventional sutures, staples and glues in repairing skin wounds, reconnecting severed peripheral nerves, blood vessels, tendons and incisions in the cornea.
May 4th, 2010
Read moreTechnology offers new way to test potential cancer drugs, see effects of environmental toxins.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreGerman scientists have refined and used a method to observe how individual nerve cells process visual information in a living brain. The new microscopic method made it possible for them to study tiny synapses on a single neuron, and to determine that each individual neuron performs an important role in sensory processing.
May 3rd, 2010
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Researchers examine the light harvesting properties of purple bacteria in hopes of adapting their natural designs in 'green' technologies for humans.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreIt looks like a piece of gel that slips into the sole of your sneaker, but it's a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster - a communications technology 'enabler' that may be in use only five or ten years in the future.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreDOE today announced formal approval for conceptual design of the APS upgrade, the first in a series of major milestones that the project must meet under DOE's project management regimen.
May 3rd, 2010
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Tetrahedral dice pack tighter than any other shape, and a single molecule can calculate thousands of times faster than a PC.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreParticipants at the INBT booth will be able to see at the macro scale what happens when materials of various shapes and sizes assemble into more complex structures at the nanoscale.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreThe National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has recently been helping the Health Protection Agency (HPA) set up the National Nanotoxicology Research Centre (NNRC) at their Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards with the aim of advancing research into the possible toxic effects of nanoparticles.
May 3rd, 2010
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The so-called Clean Room of Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Povo (Trento), part of the Micro-Technologies Laboratory with a staff of 18 researchers and technicians, is expanding: on Tuesday, 4 May at 2.30 p.m. in the headquarters in via Sommarive, there will be the inauguration of a new area, a 200 quare meter sector in addition to the already operational 500.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreFollowing the success of the 1st Joint Transnational Call in 2009, EuroNanoMed is launching its 2nd Joint Call for funding of transnational innovative research projects in Nanomedicine. This call will enable scientists from European and associated countries to establish collaborative research consortia spanning multiple disciplines.
May 3rd, 2010
Read moreRice University's Nobel Prize-winning researchers dreamed of solving the world's problems, but that can only happen if new generations learn to carry on their work. That's a prime reason the tier-one university is celebrating the Year of Nano in 2010, the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the carbon 60 molecule - aka the buckminsterfullerene, or buckyball.
May 3rd, 2010
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The Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (AML) is a world class nanoscience research, which features some of the world's most advanced microscopes allowing material to be viewed at the atomic scale.
May 2nd, 2010
Read moreThree of Trinity College Dublin's CRANN PIs were last week announced as award winners under Science Foundation Ireland's Principal Investigator Programme.
May 2nd, 2010
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